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3 8 Material 1 for Instructions. [PART IT.
mouth of our Superior, and says to us: I will be in thy
mouth. 1
Gladly, says the Apostle, will I glory in my infirmities,
that the power of Christ may dwell in me? We, too, should
say the same: we should glory in the knowledge of our
insufficiency, that thus we may acquire the power of
Jesus Christ, that is, holy humility. Oh, what great
"
things do the humble effect !
Nothing," says St. Leo,
"is difficult to the humble." 3 No, for the humble,
trusting in God, act with the strength of the divine
arm, ani therefore they effect whatsoever they wish.
They that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength* St.
Joseph Calasanctius used to say, that the man who
wishes that God should make him do great things
must labor to be the most humble of all. The humble
man says: I can do all things in Him who strengthened me?
When he finds an undertaking difficult, he does not
lespair of success, but says: Through God we shall do
Christ did not wish to select men of
mightily? Jesus
power and learning for the conversion of the world, but
poor ignorant fishermen, because they were humble, and
distrustful of their own strength. The weak things of the
world hath God chosen that He may confound the strong.
. . .
That all flesh should not.
glory in His sight?
Even when we see that we are subject to defects we
must not be diffident. Though we should relapse into
the same faults after many purposes, and many promises
" 1
2 "
Ego ero in ore Exod. tuo." iv. 15.
Libenter igitur gloriabor in infirmitadbus meis, ut inhabitet in
me virtus Christi." i Cor. xii. 9.
3 "
Nihil arduum est humilibus." De Epiph. s. 5.
4 "
Qui autem sperant in Domino, mutabunt fortitudinem." Isa,.
xl. 31.
5
Omnia " possum in eo, qui me confortat." Phil. iv. 13.
6 "
7 "
In Deo faciemus virtutem." Ps. lix. 14.
Infirma mundi elegit Deus, ut confundat fortia,
. . . ut non
glorietur omnis caro in conspectu ejus."
i Cor. i.
27.