YOUCAT Lesson 306
YOUCAT the catechism for Catholic Youth
306 Why are faith, hope, and charity virtues?
Faith, hope, and charity are genuine powers—bestowed by God,
of course—that a person can develop and consolidate with the grace of God so as
to obtain “the abundant life” (see John
10:10). [1812-1813, 1840-1841]
Photo: …..My paternal
grandmother Sarah Cordelia Bragg at the Sisters of St. Francis nursing home in
Eau Claire, WI. Sarah converted to
Catholicism in 1876 at the age of 16. This photo is from 1999 about 5 years
before her passing. She now lies in the Gilman, WI cemetery with her husband,
daughter and son. A young neighbor girl also is buried in the Bragg family plot. …..360
1812-1813, 1840-1841
1812 The human virtues are rooted in the theological virtues, which
adapt man's faculties for participation in the divine nature(Compare 2
Pet 1:4.)76 for the theological virtues relate
directly to God. They dispose Christians to live in a relationship with the
Holy Trinity. They have the One and Triune God for their origin, motive, and
object. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
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.( Compare 1
Cor 13:13..)77 –CCC
IN BRIEF
1840 The theological virtues dispose Christians to live in a relationship with the Holy Trinity. They have God for their origin, their motive, and their object - God known by faith, God hoped in and loved for his own sake. –CCC
1841 There are three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity. They inform all the moral virtues and give life to them. --CCC
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