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...St. Thomas Aquinas
[FONT=Georgia, serif]14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Matthew 11:25-30[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, serif]Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, serif]Fr. Cornelius a Lapide cites the words of St. Augustine on this verse: Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me, not to frame a world, not to create all things, visible and invisible, not to do miracles in the world and to raise the dead; but that I am meek and lowly in heart. Dost thou wish to be great, begin from the least. Thou art thinking of constructing a mighty fabric of loftiness, think first of the foundation of humility. And as great as each one wishes to build up his edifice, the greater the building, so much the more deeply let him dig his foundation.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]In following Christ our Savior, we are to imitate not so much his power and his glory, but rather his meekness and humility. But how to be humble? Indeed, it is much easier to be humble in word than humble of heart. In this regard, we turn to the writings of St. Benedict of Nursia who, in the seventh chapter of his Rule, establishes the twelve degrees of humility. Finally, we will reproduce St. Thomas Aquinas' defense of the twelve degrees, recalling that the Angelic Doctor himself learned humility through his schooling under the Holy Rule as a boy. [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]Continued- http://newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-be-humble-of-heart-12-degrees-of.html[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Matthew 11:25-30[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, serif]Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, serif]Fr. Cornelius a Lapide cites the words of St. Augustine on this verse: Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me, not to frame a world, not to create all things, visible and invisible, not to do miracles in the world and to raise the dead; but that I am meek and lowly in heart. Dost thou wish to be great, begin from the least. Thou art thinking of constructing a mighty fabric of loftiness, think first of the foundation of humility. And as great as each one wishes to build up his edifice, the greater the building, so much the more deeply let him dig his foundation.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]In following Christ our Savior, we are to imitate not so much his power and his glory, but rather his meekness and humility. But how to be humble? Indeed, it is much easier to be humble in word than humble of heart. In this regard, we turn to the writings of St. Benedict of Nursia who, in the seventh chapter of his Rule, establishes the twelve degrees of humility. Finally, we will reproduce St. Thomas Aquinas' defense of the twelve degrees, recalling that the Angelic Doctor himself learned humility through his schooling under the Holy Rule as a boy. [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif][FONT=Georgia, serif][what follows is taken entirely from the Rule of St. Benedict and from the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, respectively][/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]From the Holy Rule of St. Benedict, chapter VII. On Humility[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, serif]The first degree of humility, then, is that a person keep the fear of God before his eyes and beware of ever forgetting it. Let him be ever mindful of all that God has commanded; let his thoughts constantly recur to the hell-fire which will burn for their sins those who despise God, and to the life everlasting which is prepared for those who fear him. [ ] Let a man consider that God is always look at him from heaven, that his actions are everywhere visible to the divine eyes and are constantly being reported to God by the Angels.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, serif]Continued- http://newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-be-humble-of-heart-12-degrees-of.html[/FONT]