Sermon for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost: What is True Humility?

by Father Richard G. Cipolla

Parish of St. Mary

Norwalk, Connecticut



Humilitas




From the Gospel:  “For he who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.”





Is it not a non sequitur? The first part of the gospel is about Jesus’ eating with the Pharisees, the pious Jews who knew the Law.  Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath, and the Pharisees react:  is