YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 306
Ave Maria series
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” (seeJohn 10:10). [1812-1813, 1840-1841]
My paternal grandmother Sarah Cordelia Bragg. Sarah converted to Catholicism in 1876 at the age of 16. Grandma had a combined chicken and rabbit barn dug into the ground to protect the animals from harsh winters. As a child I looked forward to helping her tend the animals and gather chicken eggs on family visits. In so many ways, in my memories of times past "there abides faith, hope and love", as St. Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 13.…..360
[1812-1813, 1840-1841]
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
People Cordelia Sarah Bragg
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
ReplyDeleteund das heißt: Erika.
Heiß von hunderttausend kleinen Bienelein
wird umschwärmt Erika,
denn ihr Herz ist voller Süßigkeit,
zarter Duft entströmt dem Blütenkleid.
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika.
In der Heimat wohnt ein kleines Mägdelein
und das heißt: Erika.
Dieses Mädel ist mein treues Schätzelein
und mein Glück, Erika.
Wenn das Heidekraut rot-lila blüht,
singe ich zum Gruß ihr dieses Lied.
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika.
In mein'm Kämmerlein blüht auch ein Blümelein
und das heißt: Erika.
Schon beim Morgengrau'n sowie beim Dämmerschein
schaut's mich an, Erika.
Und dann ist es mir, als spräch' es laut:
"Denkst du auch an deine kleine Braut?"
In der Heimat weint um dich ein Mägdelein
und das heißt: Erika.