12 Degrees of Humility
Saint Benedict laid down twelve degrees of humility:
1. Holy fear of God, walking in the Divine Presence.
2. Renunciation of our own will.
3. Ready obedience.
4. Patience in all sufferings and injuries.
5. Telling our spiritual director or our superior all our thoughts and plans.
6. To enjoy all humiliations, to be pleased with the worst jobs, poor clothing, to love simplicity and poverty.
7. To consider ourselves less than everyone else.
8. To avoid all love of singularity in words and actions.
9. To love and practice silence.
10. To avoid dissolute laughter and jokes.
11. Never to speak in a loud voice and always be modest in our choice of words.
12. To be humble in all of our actions.
He adds that divine love is the payment for sincere humility and promises perfect chastity to anyone who follows these 12 degrees.
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