{"id":327514,"date":"2015-08-29T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/fr-foresi-how-to-live-humility\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:01:13","slug":"fr-foresi-how-to-live-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/fr-foresi-how-to-live-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr Foresi: How to live humility"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Pasquale Foresi <\/a>commented many times on the theology of the charism of Chiara Lubich<\/a>, underscoring its novelty for both living and thinking. Between 1990 and 1998 he was often called upon to answer questions that were posed by members of the Movement from a variety of vocational, cultural and geographical backgrounds. On one of these occasions he was asked for advice on how to live humility[1]<\/a>. \u201cBeing humble simply means accepting to be who you are,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd all of us are sinners. If anyone says \u2018I\u2019m not a sinner,\u2019 he lies; so all of us can have humility all the time. Saint Benedict\u2019s outline seems quite wise to me and has always helped me to live. It could be summarised as follows: The first step for being humble is to accept humiliations, mortifications. . . One day, someone speaks badly of you at the office, in your workplace; there might be a misunderstanding between you and someone else, or even a calumny. . . You need to be able accept these tribulations and difficulties. The second step is to love <\/em>humiliations, which is more than accepting them. This is the case, for example, when we have given our life for others and judgement and accusation begin to arise amongst the people for whom we have done much. These criticisms can have a basis in reality but are exaggerated. It is difficult to love such humiliations, but they\u2019re beneficial for growing in the life of God. The third step is to prefer<\/em> humiliations not only loving them, but being happy over them. As when someone speaks badly of you and you say: \u2018This is a grace from God that I am receiving. . .\u201d This is the highest grade which all of us should tend towards, because it returns us to that humility which draws us together. Obviously, the calumnies should always be clarified but with detachment, living the Gospel that says \u201cBlessed are you when, lying, they will utter every sort of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in Heaven.\u201d [1]<\/a> Foresi, Pasquale. COLLOQUI, domande e risposte sulla spiritualit\u00e0 dell\u2019unit\u00e0<\/em>, (Rome: Citt\u00e0 Nuova Publishing House<\/em>, 2009) p. 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Considered to be co-founder of the Focolare Movement, we remember him two months from his death, with some words he spoke about the virtue of humility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}