‘Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few’.

These words, which come from today’s Gospel, bring to mind the final paragraph of Chapter 7 of  the Holy Rule, which treats of the degrees of humility: ‘Then, when all these degrees of humility have been climbed, the monk will presently come to that perfect love of God which casts out all fear: whereby he will begin to observe without labour, as though naturally and by habit, all those precepts which formerly he did not observe without fear; no longer for fear of hell, but for love of Christ and through good habit and delight in virtue. And this will the Lord deign to show forth by the power of his Spirit in his workman now cleansed from vice and from sin’. Here, the ‘narrow gate’ is that of humility, through which we are led to eternal life.

May you find this way, and may God bless you in it.