Pentecost Season · Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time · Year C
Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29
Humility and the Reward of the Humble
September 3, 2028
Overview & Insights
"My child, perform your tasks with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts." (Sirach 3:17)
Sirach's wisdom instruction commends humility as the path to God's favor, warning that pride has no cure while the humble find grace, and the greater a person is, the more he must humble himself.
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Commentary
Sirach 3 (Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary) StudyLight
The main verse-by-verse Catholic commentary available online for this deuterocanonical chapter.
Sirach 3:17 (Catholic Bible) BibleHub
Lays the Catholic-canon text of the verse alongside cross references.
Ecclesiasticus 3 (Haydock) Haydock Commentary
A classic Douay-Rheims Catholic commentary; Sirach appears there under its Douay name, Ecclesiasticus.
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