We continue our Advent Reflections examining the Blessed Virgin Mary's life and her example of humility.

From in Conversation with God, Fr Fernandez writes:
"The virtue of humility, so evident in Our Lady’s life, is truth, the true recognition of what we are and are worth in the eyes of God and of our fellow men. It is also an emptying of ourselves to allow God to work in us with his grace"

"It is not opposed to our awareness of the talents we have received, nor to the full use of them, with rectitude of intentions, for for humility does not diminish, but broadens one’s outlook. Humility recognizes that all the good in us, whether in the order of nature or in that of grace belongs to God along; for of his fulness we have all received. God is all that is great in us; of ourselves we are defective and weak. We come before God as debtors who do not know how to discharge our debts, and for this reason we go to Mary as the Mediatrix of all graces."

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