{"id":163510,"date":"2025-03-21T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=163510"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:25:55","slug":"lent-2025-day-17-a-profile-in-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/lent-2025-day-17-a-profile-in-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent 2025 &#8211; Day 17 &#8211; A Profile in Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"163510\" class=\"elementor elementor-163510\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cbf6437 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cbf6437\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23ad31b elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"23ad31b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/55e52x1NEpuUn6OuayKDMU?utm_source=generator\" style=\"border-radius:12px\"  width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bee7262 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bee7262\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Day 17<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>A Profile of Virtue<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[St. Paul] is concerned with the morally good or bad works, or better the permanent dispositions \u2014 virtues and vices \u2014 which are the fruit of submission to or of resistance to the saving action of the Holy Spirit. Consequently the Apostle writes: \u201cIf we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit\u201d (Galatians 5:25).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 St. John Paul II, Dominum et Vivificantem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As human beings in the world of time and space, we have to interact constantly with three basic realities:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) things that cause or promise to cause pleasure; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) things that cause or threaten to cause pain or harm; and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3) other persons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our passions tend to react automatically to pleasures and pains, as we have seen. If we form the habit of making our decisions and taking action based only on those automatic, irrational reactions, we will form vices \u2014 habits or patterns of acting that contradict what is truly good for our human nature. If we form the habit of taking into account those important emotional reactions as we make our decisions but finally taking action based on the firmer principles of faith and reason, we will form virtues. Virtues can simply be described as our natural powers acting habitually and easily in a proper manner, acting in accordance with the truth of our human nature and vocation. The more virtuous we are, the more doing the right thing and experiencing the internal benefits of doing the right thing \u2014 regardless of how difficult or complex that may be \u2014 become second nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Cardinal Virtues<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the ages, philosophers have identified four basic virtues that are like the hinges of our moral and spiritual life. (The word cardinal actually comes from the Latin word that means \u201chinge.\u201d) They correspond to those three realities that we interact with on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we learn to govern our raw desire for pleasure in accordance with what is truly healthy and in harmony with God\u2019s purpose for our lives, we develop the cardinal virtue of temperance. Temperance takes different forms in relation to the different types of pleasure that we have to deal with (chastity, sobriety, meekness, humility). If we learn to govern the fear that pain and suffering inspire, so that this never impedes us from doing what is right and necessary according to God\u2019s purpose for our lives, we develop the cardinal virtue of fortitude or courage, whose sister virtues include patience and perseverance. If we learn to treat all other persons (God as well as our fellow human beings) with the dignity that they deserve, regardless of how we may feel about them or what they may be able to do for or against us, then we grow in the virtue of justice, which also has a slew of sister virtues (e.g., honesty, piety, obedience).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those three cardinal virtues perfect the exercise of our will and emotions in relation to the types of realities that we have to interact with in this world. The fourth cardinal virtue, prudence or wisdom, is the development of our intelligence so that it recognizes and discerns what actions are proper (virtuous, healthy, in accordance with our true good) within the myriad and tangled situations of real life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Theological Virtues<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we were baptized, we were adopted into God\u2019s family, and he infused into our soul capacities to relate to him that did not belong to our pre-\u00adbaptized nature. This infusion gave the life of grace to our souls. We were enabled to know God, to recognize his voice and his truth, and to accept and believe in him and in those truths that he reveals; this capacity is known as the theological virtue of faith. We were also given a deep impulse to expect our fulfillment in life from God himself, not from any of God\u2019s creatures, as good and beautiful as they may be. This impulse is known as the virtue, the capacity, of theological hope. Finally, were we given the ability, the supernatural capacity, to actually enter into interpersonal communion with the Trinity, to live in friendship with God, as if we were his equals \u2014 which by nature we are not; only through grace have we been given this potential. This capacity to engage with the Trinity in a relationship of mutual self-giving is known as the theological virtue, the soul-power, of love, also called divine charity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a sense, through the infusion of grace at baptism, God \u201csupernaturalized\u201d our human nature. Now faith opens and directs our intellect toward the divine light of God himself, not just to the created lights of finite truths. Now hope spurs our hearts to yearn for completeness in God himself, not only in the good things God has created. Now theological love enables us to converse with and experience an intimate, familial relationship with the infinite God, not only with fellow human beings. It\u2019s as if God altered our spiritual DNA on the day of our baptism, so that we are now truly members of God\u2019s family, not only legally and emotionally, in a way that no merely human adoption can make an adopted child into a member of that adopting family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>New Strength for a New Standard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This may seem abstract and impractical, but it\u2019s critical for a clear understanding of what growing in virtue really means for a Christian. Merely natural virtues, which have as their standard and measuring rod human nature unaided by grace, are no longer sufficient for the spiritual maturity we are called to. God\u2019s supernatural grace is indeed infused into our human nature, and it works from within that nature. And so the four cardinal virtues that describe the maturation of our natural powers are still valid for the Christian. But they are elevated to a new standard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, self-preservation of the individual and the tribe was the highest value for the pagan world. This led them to see other tribes as inherently less worthy than themselves, as not deserving of the rights (justice) that members of their own tribe enjoyed. In the light of faith, however, and as members of God\u2019s family, we now know that every human person has an equal dignity based on having been created in God\u2019s image, and so all human persons have equal rights. We no longer reserve our compassion and kindness just for members of our own tribe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To take another example, we can reflect on how our supernatural faith and hope in God enables Christians to put earthly comfort and success in second place, behind their top priority of friendship with Jesus Christ. This is how so many Christian martyrs have found the strength to refuse to renounce that friendship even in the face of seductive blandishments and agonizing tortures. Only because of this supernatural DNA, this infused grace of God at work within us, does anything in the gospel make sense to us and attract us. Only faith, hope, and love, for example, could motivate a Christian to renounce the goods of this world completely and follow a vocation to the monastery or the cloister: \u201cWhat profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?\u201d (Mark 8:36).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Questions for Personal Reflection or Group Discussion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What idea in this reflection<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> struck you most and why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How would you explain the concept of Christian virtue to someone who asked you about it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up to this point in your life, what have you consciously and consistently done to exercise the virtues of faith, hope, and charity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When dealing with definitions, as we did in this chapter, virtue can seem dry and abstract. But in fact it\u2019s intensely practical, and it\u2019s relevant to everything we experience on a daily basis. When we\u2019re stuck in traffic and our blood starts to boil, the virtue of patience (a sister virtue of fortitude) keeps us calm and collected instead of getting exhausted by mild (or not so mild) road rage. When the pleasures of video games or TV or social media threaten to sabotage our sense of responsibility to God, family, and ourselves, the virtue of temperance enables us to click the off button. When we are treated unfairly at work or we get laid off and we see no solution on the horizon, the virtue of hope enables us to continue forward without imploding \u2014 we know that resurrections come after crucifixions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What will you do today to exercise intentionally one of the theological virtues?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will go out of my way to do something kind for someone I don\u2019t really get along with on a natural level, without looking for anything in return (love).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will buy a crucifix to hang on my bedroom wall and have a priest bless it (faith).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will stop putting something off simply because I am afraid of failing \u2014 I will take the next step out of confidence in God (hope).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Write your own resolution) I will<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Concluding Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lord, holy Father, almighty and ever-living God, I thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For though I am a sinner and your unprofitable servant, you have fed me with the precious Body and Blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. You did this not because I deserved it, but because you are kind and merciful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I pray that this holy Communion may not add to my guilt and punishment, but may lead me to forgiveness and salvation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May it be for me the armor of faith and a shield of good will.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May it remove my vices and extinguish my evil tendencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May it bring me charity and patience, humility and obedience, and may it strengthen my power to do every kind of good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May it be a firm defense against the deceit of all my enemies, visible and invisible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May it perfectly satisfy all my yearnings, bodily and 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