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Podcast: The Commentaries
Episode: 10. The Imitation of Christ: Seek The Lowest Place
Description: Fr. Robert Nixon admits the idea of seeking the lowest place can be hard to understand. “This might sound a bit troubling,” Fr. Nixon says, “like when it says inferior does it mean we should try to be worse or less meritorious or less able than other people? That's not what it means in this context. Inferior means occupying a lower place in any given scale…But the fact is being higher in this scale doesn't actually make us any happier or any closer to God.” True humility, Fr. Nixon goes on to add, is the opposite of what ou...