God Alive in You:

You are unique, distinct and utterly irreplaceable. There is no other human person who has ever lived in the same way you have or will live as you have in the future. The magnificence of God is alive within you and has been since the moment of your conception.

Humility – Faith:

In today’s Gospel, Jesus urges us to be humble and not to exalt ourselves. To be humble is to face the reality of our true self i.e. our finiteness, weakness and sinfulness, and yet knowing how precious we are in God’s eyes. To exalt ourselves is to assert a false self that denies God’s love for us.

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Compassion, my dear Brother, is preferable to cleanliness. Reflect that with a little soap I can easily clean my bed covers, but even with a torrent of tears I would never wash from my soul the stain that my harshness toward the unfortunate would create.

- Saint Martin de Porres (1579-1639)