What a privilege it is to read the fathers! As we are being drawn by them into a deeper understanding of the virtue of humility, their vision of its beauty opens up before us. It is not something that only reveals the poverty of our sin and need for healing. Humility also reveals that we are made in the image and likeness of God.
We should not see humility then from a negative perspective. It reveals also the highest truth about who we are as human beings. We are destined to share in the fullness of the life of God. Humility does begin by acknowledging the truth about ourselves and our need for healing. Over the course of time it is perfected by the struggles that we undergo and the great losses that we experience. Eventually, however, by the action of God’s grace it is brought to perfection and there exist within us no desire for sin and no lingering element of pride. We begin to see in that moment that humility is one of the qualities of our God. Suddenly our vision of the spiritual life changes. Everything is meant to draw us into the fullness of his life, virtue and love. Thanks be to God!
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The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Seventy-three and Homily Seventy-four Part I
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Thirty-one Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Seventy-two Part IV
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Thirty Part II
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Seventy-two Part III
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-nine Part II and Letter Thirty Part I
The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian - Homily Seventy-two Part II
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-eight Part II and Letter Twenty-nine Part I
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-seven Part II and Letter Twenty-eight Part I
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-seven Part I
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-six Part II
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-five Part II and Letter Twenty-six Part I
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-four Part II and Letter Twenty-five Part I
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-three Part II and Letter Twenty-four Part I
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-three Part I
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-two Part II
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-two Part I
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty-one
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Twenty
Letters of Spiritual Direction to a Young Soul - Letter Nineteen
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