August 18, 2019, Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand – Humility

Epistle: 1 Corinthians 12:2-11

2 While you were still heathen, as you can remember well enough, you let yourselves be led away wherever men would lead you, to worship false gods that gave no utterance.
3 That is why I am telling you of this. Just as no one can be speaking through God’s Spirit if he calls Jesus accursed, so it is only through the Holy Spirit that anyone can say, Jesus is the Lord;
4 and yet there are different kinds of gifts, though it is the same Spirit who gives them,
5 just as there are different kinds of service, though it is the same Lord we serve,
6 and different manifestations of power, though it is the same God who manifests his power everywhere in all of us.
7 The revelation of the Spirit is imparted to each, to make the best advantage of it.
8 One learns to speak with wisdom, by the power of the Spirit, another to speak with knowledge, with the same Spirit for his rule;
9 one, through the same Spirit, is given faith; another, through the same Spirit, powers of healing;
10 one can perform miracles, one can prophesy, another can test the spirit of the prophets; one can speak in different tongues, another can interpret the tongues;
11 but all this is the work of one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each as he wills.

Gospel: Luke 18:9-14

9 There were some who had confidence in themselves, thinking they had won acceptance with God, and despised the rest of the world; to them he addressed this other parable:
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, the other a publican.
11 The Pharisee stood upright, and made this prayer in his heart, I thank thee, God, that I am not like the rest of men, who steal and cheat and commit adultery, or like this publican here;
12 for myself, I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
13 And the publican stood far off; he would not even lift up his eyes towards heaven; he only beat his breast, and said, God, be merciful to me; I am a sinner.
14 I tell you, this man went back home higher in God’s favour than the other; everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and the man who humbles himself shall be exalted.