{"id":21741,"date":"2013-11-24T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=21741"},"modified":"2015-01-26T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:50:33","slug":"want-to-be-humble-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/24\/want-to-be-humble-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to be humble like me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/e5xEYgGr6ms\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" \/>&#8230;then pray this prayer!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.<br \/>\nFrom the desire of being esteemed,<br \/>\nDeliver me, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">From the desire of being loved&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the desire of being extolled &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the desire of being honored &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the desire of being praised &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the desire of being preferred to others&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the desire of being consulted &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the desire of being approved &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the fear of being humiliated &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the fear of being despised&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the fear of suffering rebukes &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the fear of being calumniated &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the fear of being forgotten &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the fear of being ridiculed &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the fear of being wronged &#8230;<br \/>\nFrom the fear of being suspected &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">That others may be loved more than I,<br \/>\nJesus, grant me the grace to desire it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">That others may be esteemed more than I &#8230;<br \/>\nThat, in the opinion of the world,<br \/>\nothers may increase and I may decrease &#8230;<br \/>\nThat others may be chosen and I set aside &#8230;<br \/>\nThat others may be praised and I unnoticed &#8230;<br \/>\nThat others may be preferred to me in everything&#8230;<br \/>\nThat others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This prayer comes from Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val (1865-1930). Here it is in musical form, courtesy of the melodious Audrey Assad:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e5xEYgGr6ms?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;then pray this prayer! O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me. From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being loved&#8230; From the desire of being extolled &#8230; From the desire of being honored &#8230; From the desire of being praised &#8230; From the desire of being preferred to others&#8230; From the desire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1576,2382],"class_list":["post-21741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-audrey-assad","tag-litany-of-humility"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54594,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741\/revisions\/54594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}