Reflection on the 22nd Sunday in the\nOrdinary Time [C]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
September 1, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luke 14: 1, 7-14<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Humility is\nactually being simple and doing simple, yet it is so simple that many of us\nfind it difficult to be and do. It seems\nparadoxical but it is the reality that we experience in our day to day life. It\nis because we are living in the world that is so proud with itself and it\ncontinuously influences us to become proud as well. We can practically be proud\nof anything. We can be proud of our personality, family and clan, personal\nachievements, successful careers and status in life. We can be proud of the\ngood things we have done or even the bad things we have committed. Eventually,\nthe awful irony in our life is when we are even proud of our humility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pride occupies a\nprominent place among the seven deadly sins or vices. It seduces people believe\nthat we are self-sufficient and we do not need others and God. We are our own\ngod. The Bible says that the angel of light has fallen from heaven [see Isa\n14:12], and according to the Latin tradition, his name is Lucifer, the\nbrightest angel in heaven. He and some other angels revolted against God since\nthey were too proud to serve God that would become man. If lust aligns us with\nanimals, pride makes us coequal with the fallen angels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To remedy this\nterrible pride, humility is then chiefly necessary. But, it is simply difficult\nto become one since it leads us to acknowledge our true nature that we own\nnothing and everything we have is a gift. Humility is derived from Latin word humus<\/em> which means soil. Humility brings\nback us to the ground<\/em> after the air\nof pride lifts us our nose up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Humility is also\nprimarily important since it enables us to listen and through listening we are\nable to be obedient (Latin word ob-audire\n<\/em>means to listen attentively). With pride just around the corner, it is\ndifficult to listen since we start believing that we are the center of the\nuniverse and everything else revolves around us. Simon Tugwell, OP writes that\nhumble prayer is just to take a break from our tyrannical and dictatorial self\nthat occupies the center of our life and let God be God. In the same line of\nthought, Henry Nouwen writes that a sincere prayer is just like opening our\ntightly closed fist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n St. Augustine\nbelieves that humility is one of the most fundamental virtues especially in our\nrelationship with God. He says, \u201cAre you thinking of raising the great fabric\nof spirituality? Attend first of all to the foundation of humility.\u201d It is\nbecause humility is the virtue that facilitates us in listening to God\u2019s words\nand in following them. In humility, we participate in Mary\u2019s words, \u201cI am the\nservant of the Lord. Be it done to me according to your word.\u201d And not, \u201cI am\nthe boss here. Be it done to me and to you according to my word.\u201d In humility,\nwe pray in Jesus\u2019 prayer, \u201cYour will be done.\u201d And not, \u201cYour will be changed\u201d.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Valentinus Bayuhadi Ruseno, O.P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reflection on the 22nd Sunday in the Ordinary Time [C] Humility is actually being simple and doing simple, yet it is so simple that many of us find it difficult to be and do. It seems paradoxical but it is the reality that we experience in our day to day life. It is because we are living in the world that is so proud with itself and it continuously influences us to become proud as well. We can practically be proud of anything. We can be proud of our personality, family and clan, personal achievements, successful careers and status in life. We can be proud of the good things we have done or even the bad things we have committed. Eventually, the awful irony in our life is when we are even proud of our humility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,58],"class_list":["post-8790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renungan","tag-english","tag-sunday-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lubukhati.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSeptember 1, 2019
\nLuke 14: 1, 7-14<\/p>\n