Worship as Life in the Spirit
The following questions and answers from the Catechism (by Herbert McCabe, O.P) are a good introduction to the topic.
What is a virtue?
A virtue is a settled disposition, acquired by practice or given as a grace, to behave in ways appropriate to the good life.
What is the good life?
The good life is life in friendship with God and with other people, in and through which we come to happiness.
What are the principal virtues directly bearing on our friendship with God?
The principal virtues directly bearing on our friendship with God are called the theological virtues: they are faith, hope and charity.
What are the other principal virtues?
The other principal virtues, which bear on our friendship with God through our friendship with other people, are call the cardinal virtues: they are justice, courage, self-control and good sense.
Can we acquire the cardinal virtues by our own efforts and by education?
By our own efforts and through education, we can acquire an incomplete form of the cardinal virtues which dispose us to live well in secular society; but, since this society is itself for the sake of the Kingdom of God, the cardinal virtues need to be perfected and enlivened by the theological virtues, especially charity.
Can we acquire the theological virtues by our own efforts?
We cannot acquire the theological virtues by our own efforts; they are a gift from God which surpasses anything within human power.
What is a virtue?
A virtue is a settled disposition, acquired by practice or given as a grace, to behave in ways appropriate to the good life.
What is the good life?
The good life is life in friendship with God and with other people, in and through which we come to happiness.
What are the principal virtues directly bearing on our friendship with God?
The principal virtues directly bearing on our friendship with God are called the theological virtues: they are faith, hope and charity.
What are the other principal virtues?
The other principal virtues, which bear on our friendship with God through our friendship with other people, are call the cardinal virtues: they are justice, courage, self-control and good sense.
Can we acquire the cardinal virtues by our own efforts and by education?
By our own efforts and through education, we can acquire an incomplete form of the cardinal virtues which dispose us to live well in secular society; but, since this society is itself for the sake of the Kingdom of God, the cardinal virtues need to be perfected and enlivened by the theological virtues, especially charity.
Can we acquire the theological virtues by our own efforts?
We cannot acquire the theological virtues by our own efforts; they are a gift from God which surpasses anything within human power.
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