341 part ii: meditations for more solemn feasts However, someone who does not really believe that the true God-Man is here and who, having received Him, does not behave as the angels behave in His sight: that is, someone who is dissipated and proud, who does not occupy his mind in considering such a great benefit, and lastly, who in the presence of the God received by him, is neither inflamed by the fire of love, nor glows with the ardor of devotion, but is convinced that it is sufficient if he gives thanks for the Communion with a only a little prayer, and then is absorbed at once by other matters. Indeed, the mystery of the Lord’s Body is concealed before such a wise and prudent man. Oh, flee from such a wisdom and prudence! 2. “learn of [M]e, because I am meek, and humble of heart” (Mt 11:29) [DRB]. Listen most attentively, learn, and put into practice the lesson that the heavenly Teacher imparts to you now from the pulpit of your heart. He says: be humble and gentle, avoid the things that are high and lofty and instead steer towards the lowest things. Do not be puffed up because of your knowledge or other extraordinary talents granted only to you and not to the others, or because of the grace of devotion, or a large number of friends, or the loftiness of honors, or favor with people, or whatever else; but be humble of heart. Attribute to Me your virtues, to yourself your vices; to Me good things, to yourself evil things; everything to Me, nothing to yourself. Learn from My example to be humbled in all things, despised, embarrassed, to choose cheaper things, to always want what others despise: “Learn from [M]e, because I am meek, and humble of heart.” “[A]nd learn from [M]e,” as St. Augustine explains: “not to form the world, not to create all visible and invisible things, nor to do miracles in the world itself and to make the dead rise; but that ‘I am meek, and humble of heart.’”151 [f.105v] lated: “Faith our feeble senses aiding” (the Hymn for Evening Prayer I for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi). 151 Augustinus, Sermones: Classis I. De Scripturis — Sermo LXIX (Matth. XI, 2829), in: PL, vol. 38, Ateliers catholiques du Petit-Montrouge, Paris 1865, p. 441 (cap.
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