Prideful? Here’s How to Stop and Be Humble
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Today Fr. Mike encourages us to consider pursuing this one antidote in combatting pride and to helping you grow in humility today!
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| 1:26.5 | internal dispositions you possibly could have? Okay, that sounds like a word salad. Here's what I mean. |
| 1:31.4 | There are sometimes when in your life or in my life, when you recognize, man, I am so proud. |
| 1:35.7 | Like, I'm not in the good way, not in the way of like, hey, I'm really proud. I did something good |
| 1:40.2 | or I'm really proud of my country and really part of my family and really part of my sister, |
| 1:43.8 | my brother, whoever it is, not like that. That's a good kind of pride. But like the vice pride, |
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