Sunday, May 14, 2017

306 THE POWER OF FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY

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

II. THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES

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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