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On this Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, we receive two beautiful messages about the virtue of humility.
In the Book of Sirach, for example, we hear: “My son, conduct our affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God” (3: 17-18).
And in the Gospel of St. Luke, Jesus also calls for us to be humble. To do that, he tells us to never choose to sit at a place of honor at a wedding banquet. Rather, take a humbler seat. Then, if the host wants you to come to a higher place, you will be honored. But if you choose a higher place, and the host asks you move to a lower place, you will be disgraced. Jesus sums up his teaching on humility by saying, “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14: 11).
