Passions "are evil if love is evil and good if it is good."
YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 293
Ave Maria series
Why did God give us “passions” or emotions?
We have passions so that through strong emotions and distinct feelings we might be attracted to what is right and good and repelled from what is evil and bad. [1762-1766, 1771-1772]
Flagellation of Christ by Rubens. Jesus’ passion for us is summed up in the Gospel of St. John in these words: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.”–John 3:16.…293
God made man in such a way that he can love and hate, desire or despise something, be attracted by some things and afraid of others, be full of joy, sorrow, or anger. In the depths of his heart man always loves good and hates evil—or what he considers to be such.
“There is good without evil, but there is nothing evil without good.” St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
[1762-1766, 1771-1772]
THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
THE MORALITY OF THE PASSIONS
1762 The human person is ordered to beatitude by his deliberate acts: the passions or feelings he experiences can dispose him to it and contribute to it. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
1763 The term "passions" belongs to the Christian patrimony. Feelings or passions are emotions or movements of the sensitive appetite that incline us to act or not to act in regard to something felt or imagined to be good or evil. –CCC
1764 The passions are natural components of the human psyche; they form the passageway and ensure the connection between the life of the senses and the life of the mind. Our Lord called man's heart the source from which the passions spring. (Compare Mark 7:21.)40–CCC
1765 There are many passions. The most fundamental passion is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this movement finds completion in the pleasure and joy of the good possessed. The apprehension of evil causes hatred, aversion, and fear of the impending evil; this movement ends in sadness at some present evil, or in the anger that resists it. –CCC
1766 "To love is to will the good of another."(St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I-II,26 4, corp. art.)41 All other affections have their source in this first movement of the human heart toward the good. Only the good can be loved. (Compare St. Augustine, De Trin., 8,3,4:Patrologia Latina 42,949-950.)42 Passions "are evil if love is evil and good if it is good." (St. Augustine, De civ. Dei 14,7,2:Patrologia Latina 41,410. )43–CCC
1771 The term "passions" refers to the affections or the feelings. By his emotions man intuits the good and suspects evil. –CCC
JP Flagellation of Christ by Rubens
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