Have you ever walked into a party with so much on your mind that you were physically there—but weren't really present? Maybe you were rehearsing what you wanted to say in your head while someone else was trying to tell you something important. Or you were so focused on getting noticed that you missed someone else quietly feeling left out. Or maybe you were so busy trying to impress the person in front of you that you didn't notice you were disappointing the person beside you. It happens to all of us. Sometimes our worries, our insecurities, our fears, or simply everything happening inside of us can take up so much space that we have a little less room for the people around us. And that's where humility comes in. Humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's simply becoming a little less focused on yourself—and a little more available to the people in front of you. Instead of immediately thinking, “How could they do this to me?” humility creates enough space to wonder, “I wonder what's happening for them?” And perhaps that's why Pope Leo has spoken about the Church as a “school of humility”—a place where we practice this together, learning to step outside of ourselves so we can encounter one another more deeply. Today, Father Pat McGrath invites us to enroll at the school of humility. Not to make ourselves smaller, but to become a little more open, a little more curious, and a little more available—to God, to one another, and to love.