Pope Francis, in his daily homily spoke about the humiliation of King David. He defined what humility consists of and how one should be prepared to attain this virtue.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope explained that those who are humble do not justify themselves or try to appear better, but are able to accept offenses. <\/p>\n EXCERPTS OF PAPAL HOMILY \u201cThere is always the temptation to counter slander and oppose anything that humiliates us or makes us feel ashamed - like Shimei. But David says \u201cNo\u201d; the Lord says \u201cNo\u201d, that is not the right path. The path is the one taken by Jesus and prophesied by David: bearing humiliation. \u2018Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and make it up to me with benefits for the curses he is uttering this day\u2019: turning humiliation into hope.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cLet us ask the Lord for the grace of humility, with humiliations. There was a nun who used to say: \u2018yes, I am humble, but never humiliated!\u2019 No, no! There is no humility without humiliation. We are asking for this grace. And if someone is brave \u2013 just as as St. Ignatius teaches us - he can even ask the Lord to send humiliations so he can be more like the Lord\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 29, 2018. He explained that the humble do not justify themselves or try to appear better, but accept offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EV_blPh1hoY","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantamarta2901eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantamarta2901int.mp4","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cSometimes we think that humility is to move calmly, perhaps head-down looking at the floor\u2026 but even pigs walk with their heads down: this is not humility. This is that fake, ready-to-wear humility, which neither saves nor guards the heart. It's good for us to be aware that: there is no true humility without humiliation, and if you are not able to tolerate, to carry humiliation on your shoulders, you are not truly humble: you pretend you are, but you are not.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cSometimes we think that humility is to move calmly, perhaps head-down looking at the floor\u2026 but even pigs walk with their heads down: this is not humility. This is that fake, ready-to-wear humility, which neither saves nor guards the heart. It's good for us to be aware that: there is no true humility without humiliation, and if you are not able to tolerate, to carry humiliation on your shoulders, you are not truly humble: you pretend you are, but you are not.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n