Pride and Humility
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real”
– Thomas Merton
Tag: Humility
Language of Humility
“Humility is like a foreign language. I can understand it, but don’t speak it very well” – Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa
Christmas Thoughts
Those of you who know me will know that I’m someone who is not a very “Christmas-y” sort of person…
Why?
Well, it’s probably partly because all my childhood recollections of school between September to January are dominated by memories of interminable carol rehearsals! I hate shopping at all times of the year, but especially during the Christmas rush. I hate picking up pine needles and I think fake trees are, well, fake. I don’t like the dark or cold which I usually associate with Christmas. I always look forward to the extraordinary liturgy of the Church at Easter, but at Christmas it is largely unchanged. And finally, nothing annoys me more than the saccharin-coated cheeriness which seems to be induced in people every December.