Yesterday I mentioned that the Third Step on St. Benedict’s Ladder of Humility is about obedience and that the next step tells you how to deal with it as “obedience” is alien to today’s worldly people bent on personal self-determination. OK, the Fourth Step is that if this obedience is difficult, unfavorable, or even unjust, …
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The 3rd step on St. Benedict’s Ladder of Humility may be especially troublesome to those not prone to humility, or who are too rooted in the ways of the world. It says that a person should submit to their superior in all obedience for the love of God, in imitation of Jesus. From St. Paul’s …
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The second step on the Ladder of Humility is that a person should not love his own will nor take pleasure in satisfying their own desires. This is very similar to the Third Step of 12 Step recovery movements: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God …
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