Most of us know we should be more humble. Few of us know what humility actually is.

It is not self-contempt. It is not the art of deflecting compliments or thinking poorly of yourself. According to the saints, humility is simply truth - the soul's honest, peaceful knowledge of itself before God. And it is the foundation on which every other virtue stands.

A Month of Virtue: Humility offers thirty short daily readings to guide you, one small step at a time, into the humility the Church has always commended: the humility of Christ, who called Himself meek and lowly of heart; of Our Lady, whose Magnificat is the great hymn of a soul that has found its proper place; of St. Benedict, St. Th