Dear Parish Family,
This weekend we hear about a very important Christian virtue, humility. It is an attribute and quality of God which we must strive to possess and live. We must reflect deeply on this great virtue. Also, we are called to imitate the humility of Jesus Christ our Lord, who is the mediator of the new covenant.
In the Letter of Paul to the Philippians, 2: 1-6, we find a beautiful paragraph that explains the importance of imitating Christ’s humility. It states,
“If then, there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete; be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interest of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross).
God Bless,
Fr, Cyrus
