Cycle 3:season: Ordinary Sunday No:22 Date: 28/8/2016- humble Catholic
(1) Are you proud about your self? Is it against humility?
(2) Why you have to be humble in your life?
(3) What is humility?/Are you the source of your own greatness?
(4) Why Jesus said"LERN FROM ME, FOR I AM GENTLE, And HUMBLE IN HEART,AND YOU WILL FIND REST OF YOUR SOUL" (mt 11:29)
(5) Self sufficient with materials heading for what?
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Reflections of this sunday readings:
Church invite you to analyze how to remove pride from your life and become humble, and develop humility.
Humble, humility and pride has to be clearly understood by any human.
What is Pride
Our 1st parents wanted to be more than they were, and they wanted to be like God. Their pride was beginning of wide stream of evil to which we all contribute when ever we sin.
Proud person is self centred NOT God or people centered. He cannot be told anything b'cos,he has all answers. He is completely satisfied himself & dissatisfied about other people lives. He never wants to receive anything from others. He will give not out of generosity but to gain control on others. DESPITE APPEARANCE TO THE CONTRARY HE IS INSECURE &TRIES TO MAKE UP HIS INSECURITY BY BOASTING & VAINGLORY IN ALL ITS MAIFESTATIONS!.
DON'T TRY TO JUDGE WHETHER OTHER PERSON IS PROUD OR NOT.
Check& correct U'self if U'r Proud.
How to overcome PRIDE &become humble?
A humble person knows his strengths and weaknesses. Humble person seek to develop strengths and talents he possesses.
In accepting truth about him self: he give the credit to God who endowed him with talents and give him the obligation of developing. And using them for the good of others. He may certainly take pleasure in work well done. so long he realized that very impetus to do the work comes from God.
So ,be who you are and what you are, no less. and yet never be satisfied with your knowledge, especially about Jesus
With you ability to love, your generosity and spirit of service.
While understanding Pride and humbleness, how to develop Humility?
What is humility? It is the knowing and Appreciating truth, about yourself; it is integrity, sincerity, honesty. It neither over estimate or underestimate your self, your talents and abilities.
Now let us reflect today's readings:
1st Reading:
Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 gives worthy religious Advice about our need for humility and being attentive to God's Word
2nd Reading
Paul to Hebrew Heb 12:18-19,22-24 says for the author of Hebrews, mount Zion(Jerusalem) is an image of the heavenly Jerusalem to which we draw near without fear
Gospel LK 14:1,7-14 says: Jesus illustrate true humility and hospitality; invites those who cannot return the favor:
The 1st reading says the greater you are, the more humble you should behave, and then you will find favor with the lord.(Si 3:18)
In the Gospel Lk14:11 says Every one who raises himself up will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be raised up.
All of us have a rough idea of what is humility?. It is not pride. But neither it is pretense. It is not a case of pretending to be worse than you are!. Nor should it prevent you from legitimate pride in your own achievements. If we do something well, we are entitled to please about it. Humility is not negative virtue at all. It should not undermine confidence or enterprise or buzz you get when some projects goes well. Humility is a very +ve virtue. If it is not about having your nose in the air, it certainly about having your foot on the ground.
In fact the latin word of humus, from which humility comes means ground or earth. So. Humble person is down to earth- no airs and graces,feet firmly planted, things in proper perspective. If we practice humility, you are no longer of losing the run of ourselves or getting too big for our boots in our dealings with others and with God
Although humility is a lowly virtue, it has very high origins. It starts up with God. What we call the incarnation. God becoming flesh. God becoming man. God coming down was the greatest exercise in humility, the world has ever known. The 2nd greatest exercise was the manner in which Jesus lived himself. Born in a stable, lived in an obscure Villege, working in a carpenters shop, traveling the road without roof over his head, mixing with publicans and sinners, crucified in complete nakedness on a cross. It is extraordinary, when you think about it.
HE EMPTIED HIMSELF TAKING THE FORM OF SLAVE...HE WAS HUMBLER YET, EVEN TO ACCEPTING DEATH ON A CROSS.(PH 2:7-8). NO WONDER HE COULD SAY(and Without pride)" LERN FROM ME, FOR I AM GENTLE, And HUMBLE IN HEART,AND YOU WILL FIND REST OF YOUR SOUL" (mt 11:29)
There are 2 obvious ways in which we can fail to imitate Christ in His practice of humility.
The first with dealing with others: should be careful to humble on others,because they are poor,because we think their accent or their address is not quite posh as ours. Our ambition in life is not to impress others, but to serve them. We should be careful in talking to others; egotism,my friends, my connections,my possessions,my back ground, me ego etc
our ambition in life should be to make people conscious their own dignity their than our own importance."Love one another just as I have loved you" Jn 13:34. OUR HUMALITY MAKES US FEEL FREE AND MAKE OTHERS FEEL GOOD.
The 2nd obvious way in which we can offend against humility is in our dealing with GOD. And if humility is to mean anything here, we need strong and abiding sense of creature hood. It is to God that we owe our very existence. Every breath, we breath, every moment we live, every gift we have is God's. the humble person is aware of that and grateful for it.
Could it be true, I wonder, that the more self sufficient we become materially,the less we depend on God.
In the second reading says developing humility, make you to be close with
God without any fear.
In conclusions today, church showing us,Not merely willing to be humble. HUMILITY is a work of life time. learn from your failures& mistakes,be patient with your self,as God is. Otherwise you will be mechanical catholic,depriving your own happiness.
God Bless you!
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