385. What are the theological virtues?
(Comp 385) The theological virtues are faith, hope, and charity.
“In brief”
(CCC 1841) There are three
theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity. They inform all the moral
virtues and give life to them.
To deepen and
explain
(CCC 1813) The theological virtues
are the foundation of Christian moral activity; they animate it and give it its
special character. They inform and give life to all the moral virtues. They are
infused by God into the souls of the faithful to make them capable of acting as
his children and of meriting eternal life. They are the pledge of the presence
and action of the Holy Spirit in the faculties of the human being. There are
three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity (Cf. 1 Cor 13:13).
Reflection
(CCC 2008) The merit of man before God in the Christian life
arises from the fact that God has freely
chosen to associate man with the work of his grace. The fatherly action of
God is first on his own initiative, and then follows man's free acting through
his collaboration, so that the merit of good works is to be attributed in the
first place to the grace of God, then to the faithful. Man's merit, moreover,
itself is due to God, for his good actions proceed in Christ, from the
predispositions and assistance given by the Holy Spirit.
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