Advent Homily on Humility & Vain Glory | St. John the Baptist | St. Thomas Aquinas

About this sermon

On this Third Sunday of Advent, we reflect on the towering witness of St. John the Baptist, the voice crying out in the wilderness: “He who comes after me is preferred before me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.” This sermon explores the all-important virtue of humility as taught by St. John the Baptist, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Louis de Montfort, with a particular focus on vain glory—one of the most subtle and dangerous spiritual disorders of our time. Drawing from St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, the sermon explains: Why the desire for glory is not sinful in itself The three ways glory becomes vain and sinful When vain glory becomes a mortal sin against charity Why preferring the testimony of men over God is a grave error How modern man’s obsession with human approval leads to spiritual ruin We also hear a powerful story from St. Louis de Montfort’s The Secret of the Rosary about a seemingly “perfect” soul whose pride nearly led to condemnation—until humility and devotion to Our Lady saved her. This Advent message is a call to: Lower ourselves before God in truth Purify our intentions Live and act for God’s glory alone, not our own Prepare not only for Christmas, but for judgment “He must increase, but I must decrease.” — St. John the Baptist 00:00 – Gospel of St. John: “He who comes after me” 00:28 – Opening prayer & Third Sunday of Advent 00:40 – St. John the Baptist: humility and preparation 01:05 – Living Advent through humility 01:24 – St. Thomas Aquinas on vain glory 02:13 – Desire for glory vs. sinful vanity 02:28 – Three ways glory becomes vain 02:37 – Glory in unworthy things (Esau example) 03:13 – Seeking glory from men of false judgment 03:42 – Glory not ordered to God or neighbor 04:15 – When vain glory becomes mortal sin 04:52 – Glorying in falsehood and temporal goods 05:21 – Preferring testimony of men over God 05:52 – Modern errors and the crisis of truth 06:01 – Judas, Scripture, and modernist distortions 06:59 – Vain glory as a false final end 07:20 – Virtuous acts done for selfish glory 08:01 – St. Louis de Montfort & the Rosary story 09:02 – The judgment scale and humility 09:53 – False humility in confession 10:55 – Preparing for Christmas rightly 11:07 – Living for God’s glory alone 11:43 – Closing prayer For more please visit http://reginaecclesiae.com/ & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 Support Catholic Businesses here - https://sensusfidelium.com/catholic-businesses/ Sensus Fidelium Press - https://sensusfideliumpress.com/ Sensus Fidelium Apps - https://sensusfidelium.tv/ Support Sensus Fidelium - https://sensusfidelium.com/donate-support/ 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 🙏🏻PLEASE HELP OUR CHANNEL GROW 🙏🏻 ▶️ 1. Become a Channel Patron: https://www.patreon.com/SensusFidelium ▶️ 2. Visit the website https://www.sensusfidelium.com for Gueranger, Saint of the Day, Apologetics, Meditation by the Saints, Scripture Study and more. ▶️ 3. Subscribe to Other Video Platforms 🔴 SpiritusTV - https://spiritustv.com/@SensusFidelium 🔴 BitChute --- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Sensus_Fidelium/ 🔴 Rumble --- https://rumble.com/c/c-298311 🔴 My Catholic Tube - https://mycatholictube.com/videos/sensus-fidelium-channel/ 🔴 LBRY.tv --- https://lbry.tv/@SensusFidelium:c 🔴 ODYSEE - https://odysee.com/@SensusFidelium:c 🔴 UGETube - https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/@Sensus%20Fidelium 🔴 BrandNewTube - https://brandnewtube.com/@SensusFidelium 🔴 GabTV - https://tv.gab.com/channel/Sensus_Fidelium 🔴 GloriaTV - https://gloria.tv/Sensus%20Fidelium 🔴 Brighteon - https://www.brighteon.com/channels/sensusfidelium ▶️ 4. Paypal, Bitcoin, Anedot, Stripe, Square & PO Box donations - https://sensusfidelium.com/donate-support/ ▶️ 5. YouTube: Click Subscribe, then Click "Notification Bell" = 🔔 Please "Like" our videos so that Youtube shares it to others by clicking the "Like" thumbs-up under the video = 👍🏻 ▶️ 6. Please share this video 📲, and help others find Christ inside the Catholic Church! Please share this video on Facebook and Twitter using the share button. ▶️ 7. Follow on Social Media: 🔴 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SensusFidelium/ 🔴 Twitter: https://https://twitter.com/Sensus_Fidelium 🔴 Parler: https://parler.com/profile/Sensusfidelium/posts 🔴 SP3RN: https://www.sp3rn.com/community/pages/14-sensus-fidelium 🔴 GAB: https://gab.com/Sensus_Fidelium 🔴 Bastyon: https://bastyon.com/sensusfidelium 🔴 GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/sensus_fidelium 🔴 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sensusfidelium/ 🔴 Telegram: https//t.me/RealSensusFidelium 🔴 Truth Social - @SensusFidelium ▶️ 8. Follow on iTunes: 🔴 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sensus-fidelium-catholic-podcast/id1477010758 #Advent #CatholicSermon #StJohnTheBaptist #Humility #VainGlory #StThomasAquinas #TraditionalCatholic #LatinMass #CatholicTheology #PrepareForChristmas #Cat

Topics

• Humility
• Worship
• Christmas