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BarbaraTherese
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Note: I am sorry but I have made a typing error in the Poll … Option No. 3 should read: Don’t really know, but ***ask (not ‘as’ as it reads in my Poll) ***God to grant me The Gift of Humility …
I apologize that I do not know how to edit the Poll question.
I am wondering what others may conceive as the virtue of humility. St. Teresa of Avila certainly saw humility as the foundation of all the virtues. St. Albert in his closing sentence to his original rule of Carmel wrote: “common sense is the guide of all the virtues” which, as I see it, is not at all a contradiction of what St. Teresa wrote.
What are your thoughts? What follows are the thoughts of Thomas Merton (dec’d) a contemporary American Capuchin monk (Benedictine) and an author prior to entering the Capuchin Order and in his monastery continued eventually to write under Obedience. He has written quite a few books and certainly readily available here in Australia…my favourites would have to be *“On Opening The Bible” *and also “Contemplation In A World of Action”.
I just may not be able to return to this thread for a while, but I will be interested in what others may have to say when I do get back to it.
THOMAS MERTON REFLECTION for the week of April 25, 2005
"A humble man can do great things with an uncommon perfection because he is no longer concerned about incidentals, like his own interests and his own reputation, and therefore he no longer needs to waste his efforts in defending them.
For a humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even of himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God before Whom no other power has any meaning and for Whom there is no such thing as an obstacle.
Humility is the surest sign of strength.”
The Thomas Merton Foundation contactus@mertonfoundation.org
Sent : Tuesday, 26 April 2005 2:54:24 AM
To : hgraffy@mertonfoundation.org
Subject : THOMAS MERTON REFLECTION for the week of April 25, 2005
From Seeds by Thomas Merton, selected and edited Robert Inchausti. Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, MA, 2002, p 112.
Originally published in New Seeds of Contemplation. New York: New Directions, 1972, p 190.
The link for the above quotation from Thomas Merton is:
http://www.mertonfoundation.org/merton.php3?page=guestbook.ext
Regards, Barb:tiphat:
Bethany Place, South Australia
Sat. 30.4.05 11.30am
I apologize that I do not know how to edit the Poll question.
I am wondering what others may conceive as the virtue of humility. St. Teresa of Avila certainly saw humility as the foundation of all the virtues. St. Albert in his closing sentence to his original rule of Carmel wrote: “common sense is the guide of all the virtues” which, as I see it, is not at all a contradiction of what St. Teresa wrote.
What are your thoughts? What follows are the thoughts of Thomas Merton (dec’d) a contemporary American Capuchin monk (Benedictine) and an author prior to entering the Capuchin Order and in his monastery continued eventually to write under Obedience. He has written quite a few books and certainly readily available here in Australia…my favourites would have to be *“On Opening The Bible” *and also “Contemplation In A World of Action”.
I just may not be able to return to this thread for a while, but I will be interested in what others may have to say when I do get back to it.
THOMAS MERTON REFLECTION for the week of April 25, 2005
"A humble man can do great things with an uncommon perfection because he is no longer concerned about incidentals, like his own interests and his own reputation, and therefore he no longer needs to waste his efforts in defending them.
For a humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even of himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God before Whom no other power has any meaning and for Whom there is no such thing as an obstacle.
Humility is the surest sign of strength.”
The Thomas Merton Foundation contactus@mertonfoundation.org
Sent : Tuesday, 26 April 2005 2:54:24 AM
To : hgraffy@mertonfoundation.org
Subject : THOMAS MERTON REFLECTION for the week of April 25, 2005
From Seeds by Thomas Merton, selected and edited Robert Inchausti. Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, MA, 2002, p 112.
Originally published in New Seeds of Contemplation. New York: New Directions, 1972, p 190.
The link for the above quotation from Thomas Merton is:
http://www.mertonfoundation.org/merton.php3?page=guestbook.ext
Regards, Barb:tiphat:
Bethany Place, South Australia
Sat. 30.4.05 11.30am