If You Can Use Anything Lord, You Can Use Me – A Homily for the 11th Sunday of the Year
“God does His greatest work with humble things and humble people.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
“God does His greatest work with humble things and humble people.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
“We think we know a few things, and indeed we do—a very few things.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
The reading which opens the liturgy for Palm Sunday reminds us that the Lord makes himself dependant on lowly things–and that includes us, Claire Dwyer reflects as we begin Holy Week.
Our glory is a humble, derived, reflected one. Whatever spark of glory we have it is but a spark; it is from God, whose glory is unsurpassable. – Monsignor Charles Pope
“Jesus Christ has opened up the pathway to freedom and this pathway is the pathway of extreme humility.” – Dr. Anthony Lilles
Let those who are around you that are greater in virtue be honored, while you rest in the deepest humility, trust, and intimacy on His Sacred Heart.
How can we be hidden with Christ in God, as St Paul says? Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen reflects on St Teresa Margaret of the Heart of Jesus’ spirituality regarding this.
Monsignor Pope takes up the topic of humility in prayer as St. Teresa of Avila presents it in her treatise The Way of Perfection.
The third part of a series on Benedictine Spirituality with Fr. Boniface Hicks.
The second part of a series on Benedictine Spirituality with Fr. Boniface Hicks.