Third Monday of Advent, Memorial of St. John of the Cross

12/14, Third Monday of Advent/St. John of the Cross

May I never boast,

except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,

through which the world has been crucified to me,

and I to the world.

I am a prideful person.  If I do not watch it, I can think too highly of myself and begin to look down on others.  Sometimes I need to, and am, humbled.  Sometimes I need to be reminded that it all comes from God.  Anything good I do, or happens to me, is not from myself but from God.  What is more humbling than the Son of God willingly accepting the humiliating death on the cross?  And so it is that we should all humble ourselves before the Cross, and proclaim the glory of His Ultimate Sacrifice.