THE ANTIDOTE TO NARCISSISM
This awesome book healed me of my aversion to the Litany of Humility. I knew a religious leader, who when challenged used angrily demand people offer the Litany of Humility because they had slighted him. He didn’t follow the precepts of the litany himself, including that we be delivered from the fear of being suspected and from the fear of suffering rebukes. For years, I found his hypocrisy galling, but when I read and reread Humility of the Saints , I had to confront my own hypocrisy. Instead of lamenting his lack of humility and bemoaning his projection onto others, I needed to cultivate In myself, the essential virtue without which there is no growth in the other virtues and certainly no escape from narcissism. I set before myself a challenge, I begged of myself if I could imitate the Saints and the very real, sometimes gritty ways, they developed humility. In my ignorance, I had not known of classmate of St. John Vianney, St Marcellin Champagnat, who made me feel my int...
