[Salvation]

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[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

When you go to an event to which you are invited, don’t sit at the seat of honor, sit further away. You might be reseated in full view of all.

[SubMareener]

Regardless of the “exalted” status I attain, to God I am just a little boy whom He dares not let out of His sight lest I run into trouble. Whatever my titles (and I am grateful for every bit of graciousness extended to me), I am no more baptized than any other Christian, and my greatest title is “Child of God.”
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Amen!

[JoeFromSidney]

Towards the end of my Air Force career I was promoted to Colonel. That meant I had to be transferred to a location where there was an O-6 vacancy. I ended up in command of an engineering unit on a joint-service installation, which was commanded by a two-star admiral. Shortly after I arrived, the admiral gave one of his regular dinners for his officers and senior civil servants. My wife and I arrived at the dinner, and I sat down at a table with my division chiefs. Shortly the admiral's aide came and told me I was supposed to sit at the admiral's table. So my wife and I got up and took seats at the admiral's table. My wife remarked on the parable of not taking the highest place, and being asked to move up. The officer across the table from me, another Air Force colonel, looked puzzled. He didn't know what she was talking about. Then I remembered that he was Jewish. He'd obviously never heard the parable. I didn't try to explain it.

[ealgeone]

We Catholics (and especially we Catholic clergy) love our distinctions and honorifics: Your Excellency, Your Eminence, Your Grace, Your Holiness, Pontifex Maximus, Reverend, Very Reverend, Right Reverend, Reverend Father, etc. You name it, we’ve got it!

On this there is no disagreement.