You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for March 18th, 2020. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

we have been talking about the sin of pride and the virtue that opposes pride, which is

humility.

We saw this through David and Goliath.

We saw it through St. Patrick yesterday.

And today we are going to look at the ultimate example of being humble and rejecting pride.

And of course, that is Jesus Christ.

Now, why is Jesus the ultimate example of choosing humility and refusing to be proud?

Well, his whole life demonstrates this.

Jesus, remember, he was God.

He could have chosen to enter the world in any way that he wanted to.

And yet, how did he enter the world? He entered the world as a tiny embryo, as a tiny little person developing inside of the womb of our blessed mother. So tiny. And think about the way that

embryos are respected in our world today. Some people don't even think that they're a person.

And yet that is how Jesus entered the world. He could have come down on a cloud with a crown on his head and landed

straight into a castle. But he didn't do that. He came as the smallest, most humble human

possible, an embryo. And then he was born in a barn and every step of the way, every part of his life is marked by

humility, by refusing to be proud, even the way he grew up in Nazareth. There's no record of him

doing amazing things. He was simply a boy in an ordinary family. Of course, the greatest example of humility that he gave us

is his death. He allowed himself to be counted among criminals. He was paraded through the streets of

Jerusalem like he was a murderer or a thief when in fact he was completely sinless, but he let this happen.

He let himself look humiliated, but he let that happen.

Now, what can we learn from this example of Jesus?

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