Humility Challenge: Mother Teresa 

@Michelle Michelle Praise God ,Yes

@Michelle Michelle to tell you true, its more important to be follower of Jesus , so denomination don't bother me much,, I love my Jesus,, My name is Timmy Edward which is given by mother Teresa, There is small story about it, I will tell you if you like,

@@characterfitness7591 that's not the truth. It's very very important to be a practicing catholic to give oneself the best chance at achieving salvation.

@Mary J 1973 to 1984. Met her thrice in my life time

Money was her god.

@Aby Thomas Thank you 😊

So if someone pulls a knife on you you should be humble and delicate? So if my daughter is on a date and the guy tries to rape her, she should give in to his will? People, where is your common sense?

Thanks you for posting.

George Penton that is not a correct interpretation

George Penton, you are talking about crimes, and Father is talking about selfishness. How quickly do we misinterpret things and missed the whole point? We need to ask God for wisdom.

Yes, I like his quote. I heard another one somewhere, too. Humility is a healthy dose of self-forgetfulness.

Humility is both

BINGO EXACTLY.

Acrually, it's both

@@MarkKaranjaM4K no sorry it’s not . Your wrong there

In a world bloated with sin due to original sin and our own fault, we find ourselves with a disproportionate view of ourselves. This view needs to be severely cut down through thinking less of ourselves. Furthermore, being humble should enable us to have no problem with this notion. If you find yourself struggling with it, well, that's a bad sign. Moreover, if you understood your theology and knew what we were made of and from, then this wouldn't be so hard to comprehend.

@@MarkKaranjaM4K these are mother Teresa s words not mind so I think above anyone she understood it .

People these days are jealous and envious and because they have the weapon of social media and media in general they think they can just attack and assault anyone of whom they are jealous, without repercussion.

@Adresira Bandyopadhyaya I wouldn’t doubt she is attacked a lot over there. India has a lot of satanic activity occurring. The innumerable amount of scammers pretending to be Microsoft support agents, the IRS, Amazon Customer Support reps., and everything else in the world, as they lie and steal from people, is out of control there. They are very miserable and sad people. 😕 Talk about a place of people going to hell in a hand basket. It’s really sad.

@@st.michaelthearchangel7774 I don't think it is not more than what you see elsewhere. There are a lot of good people and diverse people here, and this land is old. The saints of old had a communion with God that most don't nowadays. As of scamming, it is a sad reality of any populous developing country.

Me too

God Bless from Ireland

Ulana Campbelly

So true!

Do ypu people honestly believe that humility is just letting people walk all over you?

Lord fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff and nudge me when I have said enough Amen.

Fantastic in theory very hard in practice !!

@@toomylight2311 maybe, she went through all these?

Cardinal Merry de Val wrote a litany of humility to the same effect. It’s hard for anyone to show well because it requires so much of our interior life to be at peace. Few people make it past the humility stage because pride gets in the way of the spiritual life.

@@MissPopuri if anyone could uphold all these than they’d be a saint wouldn’t they !

Greatest lady of the century

Very simple, extremely difficult.

Delete the thought of earthly poverty of starvation and financial incompetence. It's called 'poverty' when you choose to offer a prayer or something for a sacrifice or thanks giving, you must offer it self-less-ly... and when you come to Him and pray, come to Him like you are absolutely nothing... like a beggar that has nothing to offer but his faith--not a single treasure that is owned by this earth. Like a child that comes home empty and helpless---humble and not proud. In this way, we are inviting God to work for our spiritual life.

God does not need our poverty or anything else from us, and to imagine that He does is an act or symptom of pride itself. We aren't that important. God did just fine before He created us. Spend your time loving God and doing good works for neighbor and that will be humility enough. God wants (but does not need) souls who love Him, not souls who grovel in front of Him.God is not on an ego trip. "Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is thinking about yourself less." ---C. S. Lewis

@@georgepenton808 don't speak for God. Just speak to God. What a ridiculous thing to say. We are not that important. God sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to die for us and to shed His blood for us and to go to Hell for us to pay for our sins and you say we are not important. Just keep your mouth shut except when you talk to God in prayer.

B J Wow, BJ, where did that come from? Maybe George Penton does speak for God. If you read the Bible you get a very different picture of God then the one Mother Teresa refers to.

It is my understanding that God does not want what is easy for us but what is difficult and a challenge for us to give. Our silence, our humility all so very painful to practice. Hope that helps.

Well he doesn't want our riches he wants our hearts.

Dare i say if you are blessed then thank him (:

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She can’t pray for you as she is not with God. Please visit MHFM’s channel for full truth on what has happened to the true Catholic Church, in Rome and in the whole world. This is, if you’re really of the truth. Have peace.

Hi, where is this from?

George, I’m so sorry for your pain. In reading all that you have posted on this thread, your pain is palpable. May the Most Precious Blood of Jesus wash over you and heal you completely.

@johnny bhai I didn't mean to disparage Mother Teresa. I meant to point out the catch-22 of humility----sure, humility helps us to see who we are before God, but quite often when we see how lowly and sinful we are, are we not more likely to avoid higher callings? I know that Padre Pio, the night before his Ordination to the priesthood, almost backed out because he knew himself to be unworthy of such an high honor.

@johnny bhai They became saints but not with humility. Had they been truly humble they would not have become a priest or nun in the first place.

@johnny bhai Can you think of anything more prideful than a lowly sinful human being claiming to be worthy enough to be a priest or nun?

George Penton dear man, may I suggest you have a good examination of conscience? May you receive grace to learn true humility.

@johnny bhai Oh, I am not worthy to become a priest.

George Penton Who would hand down the faith through the magisterium of the Church as instructed by our Lord if we had no priests? They take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Is that not humility? Yes, they are human and can fall into sin. However, they know God's love and through repentance will receive His mercy. Pray for priests and religious.

George, that type of fatalistic thinking is dangerous. Why stop there? Why not say that about any follower of Jesus? How could anyone have the audacity to call themselves a Christian and pick up their cross daily? The point is this: wearing a habit doesn't say anything about humility or pride. It says the same thing a wedding band does: a personal vocation. All sin is rooted in pride, so we're all hypocrites. We all have to work through it with the help of the Lord.

This is an excellent question. This is a question that some of the wisest figures in the Church have spent a great deal of time and ink addressing throughout history. The first part of your question is how they tend to answer "I am a worm and not a man/woman" Mother Alexandra of Holy Transfiguration Orthodox monastery in Pennsylvania wrote in her book Our Father: "Such as I am full of fault and ineptitude, take me, use me, where most I can be of use. Let me, like the rain worm, do my share in moving some grain of soil in Thy vineyard; that I may partake in some small way in Thy redeeming work." Yes, we are worms. We are full of faults. But even the worms have some small role to fulfill in God's creation. We must also fulfill our small roles. One can also express vainglory through excessive self-abasement. "My unworthiness is more important than the work I am supposed to complete" is really just another way of saying "I am more important than the work I am supposed to complete." Imagine a person who says, "If I can't make as much money as Bill Gates at my job, I won't work" that is the same as a monk or nun saying "If I can't have [pick an often venerated saint]'s calling, I won't fulfill any calling." If one is married, one cannot live like a monk. If one is a monk, one is not expected to bring children into the world and raise them. Everyone is expected to fulfill their own small role whether it is as "great" as the hermit monk who fights logismi with thoughts like "I am a worm" or whether it's getting up a 2am to feed your crying baby or talking your parishioner through her cancer scare instead of getting to a coffee you really really "need" right now. I can't remember which book I read this in, but St. Anthony the Great (the father of all the monks) said that one should strive to gain discernment before humility, because it is so easy to fool oneself into thinking one is acquiring humility when what one is really acquiring is vainglory. I can't do this answer justice with a few quotes. Read everything you can find from the Desert Fathers and Mothers, and go find a monastic who has acquired prayer and ask. Read every book quoting the desert fathers you can get, and remember, no fasting or prayer regiments that are stricter than what your fellow parishioners do unless someone (living) more experienced in fasting and prayer is directing you. I believe the quote goes something like "He who has no one as a spiritual father has a fool as a spiritual father"

All I am saying is that humility is way oversold as a virtue. Loving God and loving and serving neighbor in a self-sacrificial way, that is humble enough. Whenever I read or hear some priest, nun, or "saint" say, oh, I'm a worm and not a man, I am disgusted. If they realky thought of themselves this way that would resign from the priesthoid or religious life in a heartbeat. The Anglican C. S. Lewis put all those "holy", "humble" Catholic saints to shame when he simply said "humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less". He might be the only writer on the subject who ever really understood true humility.

George Penton Is it not prideful to be upset over this? Humble yourself that you may overcome your ego controlling you being bothered (“disgusted”) by the value others put on humility.

That is not true. I don't think the form matters! Whether nun, wife, daughter, sister, mother, businesswoman, lover, princess, queen, leader, slave.... it's all form and all that matters is Purpose. Mother Teresa's soul chose this form as 'Nun' because that's the form that allowed her the most forgiveness opportunities in this lifetime. What is interesting to me is not how humble Mother Teresa was, but where YOUR mind is at when you ask that question. As if trying to find imperfection in others somehow makes you feel better about yourself. Instead of feeling good about yourself regardless of what others do or do not do. I think if Mother's life can offer you anything, for you, it would be that question: Why does Mother T's seeming lack of humility matter to you? Where in ME am I not being humble when I judge others as not being authentic (which is what you are saying about Mother T). How, in my daily life and thoughts, am I not being authentic to myself and therefore also not towards others?

@@stmichl9433 Basically, what I am asking is what is the real nature of humility? If it really means a recognition of our own unworthiness how can anyone dare to be a priest or nun or to take any leadership role whatsoever? This was not meant as an attack on Mother Teresa.

George Penton I think you're misunderstanding the nature of humility in the spiritual sense and conflating it with a worldly or egoic idea of humility which is about unworthiness and smallness. The spiritual notion of humility is a very different one to the one you're talking about.

@@stmichl9433 You may be right but all the material I have read on that subject suggests that if a person isn't groveling before God and other people, especially authority figures, then they are not being humble.

Dear brother, I don’t know if I’ll be able to explain what humility means, but From what I’ve read I believe it is when you trust more in God that in yourself and when trying to respond to his call you place your faith in his mercy. Because when he asks something from us he gives us his help, his grace and that is how many saints reach such levels of Sainthood, not from their effort but from Gods mercy.