Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 299 – Part VI.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) A virtue is an interior disposition, a positive habit, a
passion that has been placed at the service of the good.
A deepening through CCC
(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). (CCC 1814) Faith is
the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has
said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because
he is truth itself. By faith "man freely commits his entire self to
God" (DV 5). For this reason the believer seeks to know and do God's will.
"The righteous shall live by faith." Living faith "work[s]
through charity" (Rom 1:17; Gal 5:6).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your
heavenly Father is perfect” (Mt 5:48). That means that we must change on our
way to God. By our human abilities we can do that only in fits and starts. With
his grace God supports the human virtues and gives us, above and beyond that,
the so-called supernatural virtues ( 305), which help us to come closer to God
and live more securely in his light.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1818) The virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to
happiness which God has placed in the heart of every man; it takes up the hopes
that inspire men's activities and purifies them so as to order them to the
Kingdom of heaven; it keeps man from discouragement; it sustains him during
times of abandonment; it opens up his heart in expectation of eternal
beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is preserved from selfishness and led to the
happiness that flows from charity.
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