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(Eph. 5, 1–8; Luke 14, 1–11) “When you are called to somewhere, do not sit in the first place” (Luke 14:8, 10). Summarizing this, we get: always and everywhere adhere to the last part. This simple rule briefly expresses all the rich content of humility. Take it, sit down and consider all the possible cases of your life and in advance choose for yourself the last part in all of them. This last will be the practice of humility, which from external affairs will little by little move inside, and put it there the sediment of humility as a foundation. Time will grow this seed among the same practice, and humility will finally fill the whole soul and body and all external affairs. What will happen? But what will happen is that moral greatness will shine on your forehead and attract everyone’s respect; Keep this in mind when practicing humility, and humility itself brings a pleasing well-being to the soul. Where humility comes, all internal worries cease and all external adversities do not produce striking impressions. Just as a wave, without encountering an obstacle, spreads without noise or impact in the boundless sea, so external and internal sorrows do not hit a humble soul, but rush over, as it were, without leaving a trace. This, so to speak, is the everyday advantage of the humble; and what light from above overshadows him, what consolations are sent, what breadth of freedom of action opens up!.. Truly, humility alone combines everything... You might be interested in: