Just when you think you've got it, you just lost it!

09-01-2019Weekly ReflectionFr. Will

When I was in college, a few months before I entered the seminary, I made a retreat with the Carmelite sisters in Los Angeles. During my visit, I had an opportunity to have a beautiful spiritual conversation with Sr. Angus Marie, a solemnly professed religious sister of over 50 years. In that conversation, Sr. Angus Marie and I discussed the importance of the virtue of humility in the Christian life. I'll never forget her words of wisdom. She said, "Humility... that's a tricky one. Just when you think you've got it, you just lost it!"

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