Monday, May 22, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 293 – Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) We have passions so that through strong emotions and
distinct feelings we might be attracted to what is right and good and repelled
from what is evil and bad.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1765) There are many passions. The most fundamental passion
is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the
absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this movement finds completion in the
pleasure and joy of the good possessed. The apprehension of evil causes hatred,
aversion, and fear of the impending evil; this movement ends in sadness at some
present evil, or in the anger that resists it.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) God made man in such a way that he can love
and hate, desire or despise something, be attracted by some things and afraid
of others, be full of joy, sorrow, or anger. In the depths of his heart man
always loves good and hates evil—or what he considers
to be such.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1766) "To love is to will the good of another"
(St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 26, 4,
corp. art.). All other affections
have their source in this first movement of the human heart toward the good.
Only the good can be loved (Cf. St. Augustine, De Trin., 8, 3, 4: PL 42, 949-950). Passions "are evil if love
is evil and good if it is good" (St. Augustine, De civ. Dei 14, 7, 2: PL 41, 410).
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