Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Humbled Egos

Friends, today’s Gospel exposes the pride of the Pharisees and concludes with the prescription of humility.
I want to reflect on this virtue.

St. Augustine said that all of us, made from nothing, tend toward nothing.
We can see this in our frailty and sin and mortality.
St. Paul said, “What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it,
why do you boast as if it were not a gift?”

To believe in God is to know these truths.
To live them out is to live in the attitude of humility.
Thomas Aquinas said humilitas veritas, meaning humility is truth.
It is living out the deepest truth of things:
God is God and we are not.

Now, all of this sounds very clear when it’s stated in this abstract manner,
but man is it hard to live out! In our fallen world,
we forget so readily that we are creatures. We start to assume that we are gods,
the center of the universe.

The ego becomes a massive monkey on our backs, What a liberation it is to let go of the ego!
Do you see why humility is not a degradation, but an elevation?

+++Jesus spoke to the crowds and
to his disciples, saying,
“The scribes and the Pharisees
have taken their seat on the chair
of Moses.
Therefore, do and observe all things
whatsoever they tell you,
but do not follow their example.
For they preach but they do not practice.
They tie up heavy burdens hard to carry
and lay them on people’s shoulders,
but they will not lift a finger to
move them.
All their works are performed to be seen.
They widen their phylacteries and
lengthen their tassels.
They love places of honor at
banquets, seats of honor in synagogues,
greetings in marketplaces, and the
salutation ‘Rabbi.’
As for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi.’
You have but one teacher, and you
are all brothers.
Call no one on earth your father;
you have but one Father in heaven.
Do not be called ‘Master’;
you have but one master, the Christ.
The greatest among you must be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled;
but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”+++

I sent you the following about ten minutes ago on on another thread (solely for convenience):

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Bishop Barron claims God fired Elijah the Prophet
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJeqdENzHXA

You probably know this kind of commentary from Now-Bishop Barron has always had the same effect on me as a face plant across a cheese grater, but I thought I’d toss it to you to get your reaction.

-Dudus Unus in Novo Caesareo

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The modern, V II Bishop is affable, accultured, always appropriate. He will (try to) impress you with his Aquinas. He will bloviate for two hours in such a humorous, intelligent way. But at the end, no one will go to sleep, that night, thinking “I hate that guy’s self-assured, judgmental, hom-mof-fobeek attitude; but boy, I’d like to have his certainties! What if he is, in fact, right?”

There is a reason why bishops are called “shepherds” instead of “philosophy professors”.

Someone should inform Bishop Barron about his job description; because he seems, to me, rather confused.

You probably know this kind of commentary from Now-Bishop Barron has always had the same effect on me as a face plant across a cheese grater, but I thought I’d toss it to you to get your reaction.

Thanks for the link.
As someone who has benefitted personally learning from the Bishop's insight- I have a natural bias I’ll try to keep in check.lol.
But first, so you know I enjoy Taylor as well. I enjoyed T Gordon more though… and BOTH do not care for BB… but when I can learn something I listen.
Watching the video I learned asTaylor showed the prefiguremnent of the burnt offering thrice watered- as connected to Baptism. I always thought it prefigured the Trinity… but the inference to Baptism ( which invokes the Trinity) was cool for me to learn.
(I have some immersion-only Protestant brethren I will have to share that with.)
And I love that Taylor IS a convert- as those guys and gals have put life back into the Church. Hahn, Bergsma and Steve Ray are the major reason I came back into the Church.
with Taylor though my concern is as great as he is scripture, he gives the impression with the flame he can light- he wants to “burn it down”into a 1955 Church at the same time.

Like the time frame of Trent, those days are past history.
Taylor I think needs to remind himself why God said “we can’t pull the weeds”. And yes, to him and many, the new Bishop of Winona-Rochester minn is a weed.

I could not find the full Video of BB where Taylor pulled the 30 seconds from…
Like Mr Buzzard mentioned, it’s a bit dishonest to not hear the full explanation from BB in his colloquial opinion of Elijah being “fired”. (Maybe even a nod to Trump’s Apprentice!!) But only showing the partial clip - reminiscent of what the leftist democrats pulled on Trump at “Charlottesville” gives me pause to really be able to comment on what you sent me.

And be careful, you are not made of cheese.

Mine are pious ears.

BB’s expressions, sentiments, thoughts on “hot button” issues, how can I say it...it’s almost as if, I have so say, there he goes again.

Here he is blatantly shaping his words, establishing a rhetorical arc, that will identify him as a hard and fast adherent to the so-called “Francis magisterium”. In this instance the purported “inadmissiblility” of the death penalty. Tomorrow it will be BB backing Bergoglio up on his recent statement that a Church that is not synodal is “not Church”, that the “Church in the West” lost its synodality (and presumably stopped being “Church”), that the Eastern Church retained (perpetuated) synodality throughout, and that with Paul VI and his support for Church fathers and the advent of Vatican II, the western Church became “Church” again. Contra ABP Viganó, who has the complete opposite take (that an Antichurch arose in the wake of VII that needs to be fought against, defeated and buried). You obviously know where I stand in this debate.

BBs ministry would collapse if the “spirit of VII” were to be rubbished by Holy Mother Church.

The biblical passage at issue is 3 Kings 18:7-40 (Douay Rheims). Elias exposes “the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the grove, four hundred, who eat at Jezebel’s table” as frauds, and as implacable enemies of God, rounds them up, kills every last one of them, dead as a doornail.

Obviously, this is a violation of modernist doctrine, to wit: 1) Post-VII (false) ecumenism, and 2) Bergoglian enmity for the supposedly now “impermissible” death penalty.

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