Our Lady of Humility - July 17th

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Quote/s of the Day – 17 July – The Feast of The Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary

anastpaul.com [Slightly adapted and reformatted] | July 17, 2025



“Humility is a very strange entity.
The moment we think we have it,
we have already lost it!”

- St Augustine (354-430)


“True humility consists in persuading
and convincing oneself
that without God,
we are insignificant and despicable
and, in acceptance,
to be treated as such!”

- St Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556)


“In order to overcome the power of the devil,
the soul needs prayer
and will not be able to understand his deceptions,
without mortification and humility.”

- St John of the Cross (1542-1591) Doctor of the Church


The most holy Virgin, Our Lady,
gave us an outstanding example of this
when she spoke these words:
“Behold I am the handmaid of the Lord,
let it be done to me according to your word”
(Lk 1:38). When she said she was
the handmaid of the Lord,
she was performing the greatest act of humility
it is possible to do and,
all the more so, in that she was contradicting
the praise given her by the angel –
that she would be mother of God,
that the child to be born from her womb
would be called Son of the Most High,
a greater dignity than any we might imagine –
I say, she opposed her lowliness
and unworthiness to all these praises
and greatness, by saying
that she was the handmaid of the Lord.”

- St Francis de Sales (1567-1622) [A few more from St. Francis de Sales: https://anastpaul.com/2022/07/17/quote-s...-humility/]

Make Me Like Thineself, Mary My Mother
By St Louis-Marie de Montfort (1673-1716)


My powerful Queen,
thou art all mine,
through thy mercy
and I am all thine.
Take away from me,
all which may displease God
and cultivate in me,
all which is pleasing to Him.
May the light of thy faith,
dispel the darkness of my mind,
thy deep humility,
take the place of my pride,
thy continual sight of God,
fill my memory, with His Presence.
May the love of thine heart
inflame the lukewarmness, of mine.
May thy virtues, take the place
of my sins.
May thy merits,
be my enrichment
and reconcile all which is
wanting in me, before God.
My beloved Mother,
grant that I may have,
no other spirit but thine,
to know Jesus Christ
and His Divine Will
and to praise and glorify the Lord,
that I may love God,
with burning love like thine.
Amen