Ave Maria!

The reward for Christ’s humility is His glorification and ours as well. Humility is the cornerstone of our faith. Pride, vanity, curiosity – all the vices that make up a successful worldly career are the gifts of Satan and the fruits of original sin. Possessing many college degrees in not the formula for sanctity. Fr. Peter once again speaks with authority on the harmony of humility and dignity in the lives of Christ, Our Lady, and in our own lives.

Ave Maria!

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Vices

“Vainglory is the enemy precisely of the souls who are consecrated to the Lord and who have given themselves to the spiritual life; therefore, it can be rightly said that it is the moth of the soul who tends towards perfection. It has been called by the saints the wood-worm of sanctity.”

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Vices

“To show us how much vainglory is contrary to perfection, Our Lord demonstrates it to us with that reprehension that He gave to the Apostles when He saw them full of complacency and vainglory because the devils showed themselves obedient to every one of their commands: ‘But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven’.

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Vices

“The Lord, to root well into the minds of the Apostles the sad effects of the cursed vice of vainglory when it is able to insinuate itself into hearts, terrified them by placing before their eyes the example of Lucifer who was hurled down from such heights for the vain complacence he took in the endowments to which God had raised him: ‘I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven’.

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Vices

“Chrysostom, on speaking of vainglory says: ‘The more rightly you act to repress vainglory, the more you rouse it’; and what is the cause of this? Let us allow the same saint and doctor tell us: ‘because all vices are born from evil. Only vainglory proceeds from good, and therefore it is not extinguished with good but it is more nourished by it.’

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Vices

“The devil knows very well that a lustful person, a greedy person, an avaricious person, a sinner, has more need of confounding himself and of blushing than of taking pride in himself, and that is why he is very careful not to tempt them in this way. But if he spares them from this battle, he does not spare the good, especially those who are trying to tend to perfection.”

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Vices

“All vices predominate only over those who let themselves be defeated and dominated by them. But vainglory raises its head against the very same people who fight it and defeat it. It draws its courage in assailing the very conquerors from the very same victories they have won against it. Vainglory is an enemy that never tires; it is an enemy that makes war with us in all our works and, if one is not aware of it, he remains a victim of it.”

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Vices

“We, in order to flee from the praises of others, prefer fasts that are concealed and hidden from sight; we prefer silence to eloquent speech; being despised to treated with respect; we prefer contempt to honors. Woe is me! My God! Even in this, vainglory wants to stick its nose, as they say, assailing us with vain complacence.”

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Vices

“St. Jerome was right to compare vainglory to the shadow. In fact, the shadow follows the body wherever it goes; it even measures its steps. The body flees from this or that, so does the shadow; the body walks at a slow pace, the shadow conforms itself to this as well; the body sits, and the shadow takes the same position. Vainglory does the same thing; it follows the virtue wherever it goes. In vain would the body try to flee from its shadow. It likewise happens to one who has given himself to the [practice] of virtue, to perfection: the more he flees vainglory, the more he feels assailed by it.”

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Vices

“Let us always be on our guard. Let us not let the enemy of vainglory penetrate into our minds and our hearts because once he enters, he makes every virtue wither, corrodes all holiness, and corrupts all that is beautiful and good.”

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