Pride and Humility
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
“God in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor.”Ps. 68
Pride turned God’s angel into the devil, and pride also separate Too from God. To be proud is to act as if I were god, doing whatever I want without considering what God asks of me. It is rebellion and disobedience, a preference for lies and darkness instead of truth.
Humility, on the other hand, is to live in the truth: to trust God, to obey Him like Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and the saints. The humble person recognizes his weakness and limits, and for that reason relies completely on God, convinced that His will is always best.
Every Christian should filter his thoughts, desires, and actions through the Gospel-accepting only what God accepts and rejecting what He rejects— because to follow our own ego and sin is to lose the life of the soul.
From Genesis, we see humanity repeating the same rebellion of disobedience. Even children and young people show this tendency when they resist authority and insist on their own way. This is the mark of our fallen nature.
Each of us must choose: follow pride, ego, and sin—or follow the path of obedience and trust in God that Jesus showed us: “Father, not my will but yours be done.”
Readings of the Week
Sunday: Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29/Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5 (1a)/Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a/Lk 14:1, 7-14
Monday: 1 Thes 4:13-18/Ps 96:1 and 3, 4-5, 11-12, 13/ Lk 4:16-30
Tuesday: 1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11/Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14/Lk 4:31-37
Wednesday: Col 1:1-8/Ps 52:10, 11/Lk 4:38-44
Thursday: Col 1:9-14/Ps 98:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6/ Lk 5:1-11
Friday: Col 1:15-20/Ps 100:1b-2, 3,4, 5/ Lk 5:33-39
Saturday: Col 1:21-23/Ps 54:3-4, 6 and 8/ Lk 6:1-5
Next Sunday: Wis 9:13-18b/Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17 (1)/PhIm 9-10, 12-17/Lk 14:25-33
Observances for the Week
Sunday: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday: Labor Day
Wednesday: St. Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church
Next Sunday: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
