Unpacking the Litany of Humility
Episode 2 of the Catholic Frequency Podcast was first recorded as a Live Space on the X Platform with @BldgCatholicMen. This discussion includes unpacking the Virtue of Humility and analyzing each of its guiding principles.
Notes
- What is Humility? C.S. Lewis wrote that "humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."
- The Virtue of Humility can be though of as a type of conversion. Conversion means a turning to, a turning towards. A helpful way to think of it is humility is a conversion to reality. Humility is not a negative view of oneself.
- All of the vices that humility counters are vices that make you turn inward, that have yourself as the object of your focus.
- There are 2 primary lies that humility turns away from -- the vice of pride and the vice of sloth. These are two opposite lies. Pride is the one that we more typically think of in relation to humility. Thinking thinking too highly of yourself, but sloth is sort of the opposite of that. It's to to think too lowly of yourself, to to despair of God's mercy, to despair of your life, to, let's see, to despair of your ability to to hear and to heed and to meet God's calling in your life.