Chapter 7: The value of humility (paragraph 4)
The first step of humility is to cherish at all times the sense of awe with which we should turn to God. It should drive forgetfulness away... (From para. 4 of Ch. 7 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)
Like the mantra does. With the gradually expanding consciousness that Jesus is in the midst of all my circumstances. And discovering redemptiveness even in tragedy.
Like the mantra does. With the gradually expanding consciousness that Jesus is in the midst of all my circumstances. And discovering redemptiveness even in tragedy.
I love Laurence Freeman’s suggestion of a personal response to Jesus’ “Redemptive question”, “But who do you say that I am”. In fact, Fr Laurence's very last words in “Jesus The Teacher Within” (Ch12 Kindle Loc5176) are: “ . . . I say that you, Jesus, are the humility, the humanity of God.” This is the awesomeness and the touchstone of my faith: to believe that you, Abba, humbled yourself. You so loved the world and me personally to send your only beloved Son to take flesh, become a human being, so that we, I, might have everlasting life. Jesus is your humility, your humanity.
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