Born This Way?
“This is just who I am — I was born this way.” How often in society today are we enjoined to just “be real” about “who we are?”
But such sincerity can never become an excuse for complacency. Father Luigi Epicoco writes that, while some people need to learn to be authentic about themselves, others need to stop being “self-congratulatory about their sincerity.
For sincerity without the humility to repent is not a gift but a form of pride.”