Humility

Humility consists in three things: penitence/confession, forgiveness, and right worship.

In his treatise on humility Saint Bernard names three levels of truth as the sources of true humility.

1. Consider and admit one's own wretchedness => confession and penitence.

2. Have pity on the wretchedness of others, in light of the consideration of one's own wretchedness => fraternal correction and forgiveness.

3. Purify the eye of one's heart to contemplate heavenly and divine things.

Cf. Saint Bernard, On the Levels of Humility and On Pride, Chapters 4-6.

Cf. Podcast on the twelve levels of humility in Saint Bernard.