Humility Is a Powerful Virtue
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Humility is often misunderstood as weakness, but it is actually a strength that opens the door to grace. Jeff discusses the powerful virtue of humility and its crucial role in living as an activated disciple. He shares insights from his recent pilgrimage to Poland and Czechia, highlighting the humble lives of saints like St.John Paul II, St.Maximilian Kolbe, and St.Edith Stein.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.4 | videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:18.0 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.7 | This is show 450. Humility is a powerful virtue. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to the show this week. I'm Jeff Kavins. Thank you for joining me. Appreciate it. And this is your first time. Welcome. We talk every week about discipleship and we talk about scripture, certainly how to study scripture and read it, interpret scripture. But our goal is really taking everything that we can as far as what Jesus taught, what he passed |
| 0:55.1 | on to the church, and try to put that into practice in our life, not just to become great |
| 1:01.2 | people, not just to become happy people, although both of those are very good goals, right? |
| 1:07.1 | You want to be happy and you want to be a good person. But it's really to honor Jesus, |
| 1:11.5 | to do his will. And by doing his will, I think that's the best place to be in life. |
| 1:19.0 | You know, typically problems arise in our life, problems that we don't want to deal with |
| 1:22.9 | when we are walking contrary to his will. So I'm going to talk today about one aspect of being a |
| 1:30.5 | disciple of the Lord that I was thinking about over the last 10 days or so. I just came back a couple |
| 1:37.5 | days ago from a pilgrimage that Emily and I led over to Poland, and then we ended the pilgrimage |
| 1:43.2 | over in the Czech Republic. |
| 1:45.5 | It used to be called the Czech Republic. |
| 1:47.0 | And since 2018, now they prefer the name Czechia. |
| 1:51.0 | Chequia is the first half of what used to be Czechoslovakia. |
| 1:55.6 | Slovakia is another country. |
| 1:57.4 | Those two countries came out of Czechoslovakia. |
| 2:00.3 | But we were in Prague, and that's where |
| 2:01.9 | we came home from, was this immense city of Prague. It is really, really big. Well, needless to say, |
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