title: Humble Pie: St. Benedict's Ladder of Humility
author:  Carol Bonomo 
description: Carol Bonomo is a lobbyist and speechwriter for a state university in southern California. A Benedictine oblate since 1998, she is the author of award-winning <i>The Abbey Up the Hill</i>.
zlib_text: HUMILITY RULES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  J. AUGUSTINE WETTA, O.S.B.  
  Monk of Saint Louis Abbey
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## HUMILITY RULES
  
  
  ### Saint Benedict 's Twelve-Step  
  Guide to Genuine  
  Self-Esteem
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > Scripture quotations are from Revised Standard Version of the Bible—Second
  > Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition) Copyright © 2006 National Council of the
  > Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All
  > rights reserved worldwide.
  
  
  Cover art:  
  Saint Benedict with Skateboard  
  by Jean C. Wetta
  
  
  Cover design by Augustine Wetta, O.S.B.
  
  
  © 2017 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 978-1-62164-149-0 (PB)  
  ISBN 978-1-68149-787-7 (EB)  
  Library of Congress Control Number 2017932733  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For my godmother, Tina Stretch
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > I see the beauty of Your grace;  
  > I contemplate its radiance,  
  > and I reflect its light.  
  > I am caught up in its unspeakable splend