Fra Angelico's The Virgin of HumilityTHE ANNUNCIATION
MARY'S BEHAVIOR IN HER HUMILITY
MARY'S BEHAVIOR IN HER HUMILITY
4. Your Humility.
Are you similar to Mary in humility and in the generosity of your sacrifice? Do you not rather search after flattery and smiles and sweet words? Are you ready to take for yourself whatever is heavy and despised and humiliating? At least when God gives it to you. Do you accept it with resignation; or do you rather protest and try to shirk it? Think of your nothingness for in the same way as God raised the grandeur of Creation from nothingness, your greatness also will spring from the acknowledgment of your own nothingness. Know God Who is all, and know your own nothingness. Thus you will find real humility.
Perform some acts of external humility. Make many acts of interior humility. Feel obliged and thankful to those who by despising you, help you to practice humility.
Are you similar to Mary in humility and in the generosity of your sacrifice? Do you not rather search after flattery and smiles and sweet words? Are you ready to take for yourself whatever is heavy and despised and humiliating? At least when God gives it to you. Do you accept it with resignation; or do you rather protest and try to shirk it? Think of your nothingness for in the same way as God raised the grandeur of Creation from nothingness, your greatness also will spring from the acknowledgment of your own nothingness. Know God Who is all, and know your own nothingness. Thus you will find real humility.
Perform some acts of external humility. Make many acts of interior humility. Feel obliged and thankful to those who by despising you, help you to practice humility.
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