"In one of his daily homilies at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis said
that 'There is no humility without humiliation. If you are not able to
put up with some humiliations in your life, you are not humble.'
"Humiliation? Been there, done that. . . .
"[H]umiliation can steamroll us in different ways, but if
accepted with honesty and grace, it is good for the soul. We can be
humiliated by the shameful admission of our own sins; by our
embarrassing public failures; by the recognition that we're not in
control of all the circumstances of our lives; by the realization that
something we firmly believed to be true turned out to be false; by the
betrayal of once good friends; and by some silly, embarrassing deeds
from the past, the memory of which makes us blush even today."
In a recent commentary, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, of the Diocese of Providence
(RI), reflected on moments of humiliation in life and how to handle them.
To access Bishop Tobin's complete essay, please visit:
The Imitation of Christ: "Whoever Exalts Himself . . ." (5 SEP 19)
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