a Month of Virtue: Humility: 30 Days to Lowlier Heart

Most of us know we should be more humble. Few of us know what humility actually is.It is not self-contempt. It is not the art of deflecting compliments or thinking poorly of yourself. According to the saints, humility is simply truth - the soul's honest, peaceful knowledge of itself before God. And it is the foundation on which every other virtue stands.A Month of Virtue: Humility offers thirty short daily readings to guide you, one small step at a time, into the humility the Church has always commended: the humility of Christ, who called Himself meek and lowly of heart; of Our Lady, whose Magnificat is the great hymn of a soul that has found its proper place; of St. Benedict, St. Thérèse, St. Francis de Sales, and the long tradition of saints who discovered that the lowlier the soul, the freer it becomes.Each day takes just a few minutes to read. Each offers a brief reflection rooted in Catholic tradition, a verse from Scripture, one concrete resolution to carry through the day, and a short closing prayer. The thirty days are arranged in four movements: what humility really is, humility before God, humility with others, and humility with yourself - ending with an act of consecration that gathers the month's work into a single offering.This is not a book about making yourself feel small. It is a book about becoming free - free from the exhausting labor of self-promotion, self-defense, and the need to appear. The soul that has found its true smallness before God has found something pride never could: its proper rest.Suitable for individual use, small groups, or Lenten reading. Stands fully on its own; no prior books in the series required.

Pagina's: 155, Paperback, Independently published