How to properly handle our greatness

This Lenten season, let's reflect on the importance of serving others, especially when we have been blessed with talents and privileges.

- Fr. Roy Cimagala

Instead of expecting to be served, let's cultivate a heart of service and humility.This we can gather from what Christ himself said once to his disciples: “Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mt 20,26-28)

This is how we can properly handle our greatness which we can always presume since, first of all, among God’s creatures we are the ones who have been created in his very image and likeness, meant to share in the very life and nature of God. All other creatures, except the angels, come from God and belong to God, but do not go to the extent of entering into the very life and nature of God.