Chapter Talk 7/2/23
Humility
"The seventh degree of humility is, when, not only
with his tongue he declared but also in his
inmost soul believes, that he is the
lowest and vilest of men, humbling
himself and saying with the Prophet:
'But I am a worm and no man,
the reproach of men and the outcast of the people.'
Rule of Benedict chapter 7.
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When I was a young monk, I always had a negative reaction to the above quote. I simply did not believe that such a statement cou