How to get ahead

Self-promotion is the way to get ahead, they say.

The result is that the world is very often cursed by people who are good at self-promotion and no so good at the job they are supposed to do.

More important for true success in this world are real accomplishments together with clear and honest communication about them.

As for eternal success, the words of our Lord in today’s Gospel (Luke 14:1, 7-11) are truly words to live by:

Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.

Humility before God is honesty, for we are infinitesimal before the Infinite, powerless before the Omnipotent.

Only by grace can we mortals attain eternity.

Thus, in and through Christ…

Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.