Today's readings are here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/021512.cfm
"Therefore, put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls."
As James says in today's first reading, in order for us to be doers of the word and not merely hearers, we need meekness or humility. Humility is that virtue by which we cast off our desire to be our own boss, a desire that reveals itself in the "filth and evil excess" that are still in our lives, and follow what God says to us in his word. A failure to do God's word, or to look intently into his word, is due to pride, for (so we reason) why should we follow the word of the Lord if we are our own lords? Why should we, as lords, follow another Lord? If we are our own lords, then we will follow our own word.
May the Lord grant us the humility to see ourselves as we truly are: mortal, creatures, sinners, dearly loved by the Lord in Christ, so that we might put away our own pride and submit to God's will.
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