Great article from Fr. Hardon on Chastity and the Eucharist
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Chastity/Chastity_005.htm
My thoughts:
Humility: The acknowledgment of who you are before God. In order to be humble we must know ourselves. Primarily as sons of the Father. Second, we must know our strengths and weaknesses and we must glorify Him in both. Through our God given strengths we must be used as an instrument of grace for others and through our weaknesses we must allow God to transform us more and more in His likeness.
Recently I've been thanking God for my struggles with lust and drinking and my other weaknesses because I have experienced a taste of the transformation that I've allowed/participated in. By the grace of God I have been sober for 6 months now and I know that it is in no way my doing. It has to be God who has given me the grace to change; I tried it on my own and it didn't work. Thus, it is even in our weaknesses that we can glorify the Father. My weaknesses also remind me of how much I truly depend on Jesus. For this I am thankful because I have a tendency to think that I can do it all on my own. It is in our humility, our recognition of who we are before God that we can give Him the Glory that is due. We must strive to know ourselves more fully to practice the virtue of humility. It is in our powerlessness and brokeness that we must surrender and be transformed and it is in our strengths that we must be used as an instument of grace for others.
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