On other online writings I've posted over the years, I know I've included this Litany of Humility before. I love it; I used to pray it daily for awhile, but then less frequently, and now not often but need to!
Humility is the touchstone and threshold of faith. Humility creates a soul that aspires to be spiritual, a soul that desires God in the little, less, least of things, thoughts, and persons temporal. Humility opens the floodgates for the body, mind, heart, and soul to enter into the paradise of the spiritual world of His Real Presence and follows upon the footsteps of Jesus Christ Himself. Humility is what esteems the Blessed Virgin Mary to be deemed Theotokas--the Mother of God.
Humility is the true and sure antidote to the personally putrefying prison of pride. Humility is ours for the asking. All that is required to have the grace of humility is to consider, embrace, and live the reality that we are nothing to God's All.
Praying the Prayer of Humility, penned by Cardinal del Valle and offered below, will help instill within our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits the attitudes and integral aspects of the God-given gift of humility.
Litany of Humility
Cardinal Merry del Val
He was accustomed to recite this prayer daily after the celebration of Holy Mass.
O Jesus meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver, me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being honored, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being praised, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred to others, Deliver me Jesus.
From the desire of being consulted, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being approved, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being despised, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of suffering rebukes, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being calumniated, Deliver, me, Jesus.
From the fear of being forgotten, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being ridiculed, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being wronged, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being suspected, Deliver me, 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 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 become as holy as I should,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
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Jesus meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto thine.
God bless His Real Presence in us! Love in God's Love!
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