You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast, 2020. Today is also the feast day of Luis de Merrillac, who was a French saint. Now, this week we're talking about the sin of pride. right? Pride means that I think I'm the best.

I don't need other people, but I certainly also don't need God. And that is a lie. That is a lie,

my friends. We need God. We are good. We are made in the image and likeness of God, but we are not God.

And that is where pride gets confused and sinful.

So the opposite of pride, the way that we are called to live in virtue, is humility.

Humility.

Now, humility can be a hard thing to understand.

We can sometimes think that it means

humiliation. It doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean that we think less of ourselves than we are.

For example, if you're like a super talented piano player, being humble doesn't mean you're saying,

oh, I'm really terrible. I really am a bad player because

it's not true, right? You're very good. Humble is just simply being honest. That's what we need to

realize. Being humble means being honest. I'm not exaggerating who I am. And I'm also not falling into the temptation to compare myself to other people.

I'm simply talking about who I am with honesty.

Now, Jesus is a wonderful example of humility.

In many different times throughout his life, He humbles himself out of love,

and he shows us how powerful that is. So of course, the first big act of humility for Jesus

happens at his birth, right? And he wasn't born into a palace. He wasn't born the son of a king and a queen.

He was born the son of fairly unimportant parents from a really unremarkable place, Nazareth. He was born in a barn, born

there with animals. His crib was a feeding trough, right? That is humble.

And yet we know that he was, you know, he was a human being.

And his mother, Mary, the Blessed Virgin Mary, was this immaculate, wonderful person.

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