Continuing to guide the Missionaries on the quality of their \u201cbeing\u201d Eugene\u2019s 1818 Rule highlights the importance of the virtue of humility.<\/p>\n
\nThis is how they will succeed in getting familiar with the holy virtue of humility, that they will continually ask God for.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Coming from the Latin word for ground (\u201chumus<\/em>\u201d) it has nothing to do with the caricature of a false piety of always demeaning oneself. As I read his writings I think that we can say that for Eugene, humility was about keeping both feet firmly on the ground. It was about God and the Missionary having their rightful place in their relationship.<\/p>\n
\n\u2026 since it is absolutely necessary for the perilous ministry in which they are engaged. So rich, indeed, are the fruits of this ministry, that it is to be feared that such marvelous achievements\u2014due as they are to grace alone and whose glory consequently belongs only to God\u2014might prove a dangerous snare for an imperfect missionary, who has not sufficiently cultivated this fundamental and indispensable virtue.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
1818 Rule, Part Two, Chapter One. Regarding other principal observances<\/em><\/p>\n
Humility is about the Missionary keeping focused on God and never forgetting that he is God\u2019s co-operator, God\u2019s instrument of salvation.<\/p>\n
We find exactly the same concern in Jesus for his apostles after the miracle of the multiplication of the bread: \u201cImmediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd<\/em>.\u201d Mark 6:45. Imitating Jesus, Eugene wants all the honor and \u201cglory\u201d of their missionary successes to go to God and not to the heads of the Missionaries.<\/p>\n
Their concern is to keep their feet firmly on the ground and let the Savior act through them.<\/p>\n
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“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Rick Warren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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