Favorite Substack this past week:
https://open.substack.com/pub/starlalala77/p/advent-second-week-reflections?
Family Highlight
Baby Boy B turned 3. That went so fast. He amazes me with his ability to articulate what he is thinking and feeling. And I love his laughter. He has a great smile and such sweet little moments of tenderness. He is loving golf and gets so excited when he makes a whole in one.
And Grandpa did cookies with the girls this past weekend. They loved frosting the cookies.
Advent Week 3 – Day 1 – The Litany of Humility
Healing starts with humility. Christians in older times were just different, built different, and as examples, I long to follow them. Litanies are a form of prayer, containing a series of petitions to which people make fixed responses.
In this one, the litany of humility – asks of the heart two fixed responses.
- Deliver me, O Jesus
- Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
O Jesus, meek and humble of heart,
Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being loved,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being honored,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being praised,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred to others,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being consulted,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being approved,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the fear of being despised,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the fear of suffering rebukes,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the fear of being calumniated,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the fear of being forgotten,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the fear of being ridiculed,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the fear of being wronged,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the fear of being suspected,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That, in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I may decrease,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be chosen and I set aside,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be praised and I go unnoticed,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be preferred to me in everything,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
~Cardinal Merry del Val (1865-1930)
Thanks for Listening,
Starla
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