“The truly humble reject all praise for themselves, and refer it all to God.” St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
During my thirteen and a half years of seminary training, I was impressed by the seminarians who helped with the cooking. They would get up about an hour earlier than the rest of the community, and after finishing their prayers and going to Mass, they went to the kitchen to crack over 400 hundred eggs, make 30 pots of coffee, toast over 300 English muffins, cook a mountain of pancakes, etc. The meals would come out hot and nicely prepared on a platter, and most of us never knew who the seminarians were behind the doors getting it all done. Humble service, day after day, year after year…without looking for praise or pats on the back, these men were truly forged in virtue.
