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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A JOYFUL AND GENUINE HUMILITY \nFrom a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux3 \n◊◊◊ \nDo you see that humility makes us righteous? I say humility and not \nhumiliation. How many are humiliated who are not humble! There are some \nwho meet humiliation with rancor\, some with patience\, some again with \ncheerfulness. The first kind are culpable\, the second are innocent\, the last just. \nInnocence is indeed a part of justice\, but only the humble possess it perfectly. \nHe who can say: “It was good for me that you humiliated me\,” is truly humble. \nThe person who endures it unwillingly cannot say this; still less the one who \nmurmurs. To neither of these do I promise grace on the grounds of being \nhumiliated\, although the two are vastly different from each other\, since the one \npossesses his own soul in his patience\, while the other perishes in his \nmurmuring. For even if only one of them does merit anger\, neither of them \nmerits grace\, because it is not to the humiliated but to the humble that God gives \ngrace. \nBut he is humble who turns humiliation into humility\, and he is the one \nwho says to God: “It was good for me that you humiliated me.” What is merely \nendured with patience is good for nobody\, it is an obvious embarrassment. On \nthe other hand we know that “God loves a cheerful giver.” Hence even when we \nfast we are told to anoint our head with oil and wash our face\, that our good \nwork might be seasoned with spiritual joy and our holocaust made fat. For it is \nthe possession of a joyful and genuine humility that alone enables us to receive \ngrace. But the humility that is due to necessity or constraint\, that we find in the \npatient person who keeps his self-possession\, cannot win God’s favor because \nof the accompanying sadness\, although it will preserve his life because of \npatience. Since he does not accept humiliation spontaneously or willingly\, one \ncannot apply to such a person the scriptural commendation that the humble \nman may glory in his exaltation. \nIf you wish for an example of a humble person glorying with all due \npropriety\, and truly worthy of glory\, take Paul when he says that gladly will he \nglory in his weaknesses that the power of Christ may dwell within him. He does \nnot say that he will bear his weaknesses patiently\, but he will even glory in them\, \nand that willingly\, thus proving that to him it is good that he is humiliated\, and \nthat it is not sufficient that one keep his self-possession by patience when he is \nhumbled; to receive grace one must embrace humiliation willingly. \nYou may take as a general rule that everyone who humbles himself will \nbe exalted. It is significant that not every kind of humility is to be exalted\, but \nthat which the will embraces; it must be free of compulsion or sadness. Nor on \nthe contrary must everyone who is exalted be humiliated\, but only he who exalts \nhimself\, who pursues a course of vain display. Therefore it is not the one who is \nhumiliated who will be exalted\, but he who voluntarily humiliates himself; it is \nmerited by this attitude of will. Even suppose that the occasion of humiliation \nis supplied by another\, by means of insults\, damages or sufferings\, the victim \nwho determines to accept all these for God’s sake with a quiet\, joyful conscience\, \ncannot properly be said to be humiliated by anyone but himself. \n  \n3 (CF 7:162-163).7 \n  \n 
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