His Beatitude Onuphry: “The humble are defended by God Himself”
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry. Photo: UOC
In his sermon on the feast day of Venerable Theodosius of the Caves, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry spoke about how humility makes a person truly strong, the UOC Information and Educational Department reports.
Speaking about the life of the great ascetic of the Kyiv Caves, the Primate emphasized that it was humility that enriched him with divine grace.
“Today’s world does not understand what humility is. People consider humility a weakness, and therefore someone who humbles himself is seen as weak. But humility is not human weakness. Humility is a high art – an art of bringing one’s human frailty under the protection of God’s almighty grace,” His Beatitude stressed.
According to him, “the humble person has God as his refuge and intercessor.”
Metropolitan Onuphry added that a person who strives to humble themselves before God becomes a bearer of divine power – power that “no one and nothing can overcome.”
His Beatitude wished that the Lord would help each of us, in our own measure, to labor in humility before God and toward one another. Then, said the archpastor, we will become, at least in a small way, like Venerable Theodosius – and will have hope for eternal salvation in Christ.
As previously reported by the UOJ, His Beatitude celebrated the Divine Liturgy on the feast day of St. Theodosius at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
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