08 Jul 2014
The
author notes, “This general judgment is evidently expedient, because
man is not merely a private person, but is a social being, and this
judgment will reveal to all men the rectitude of Providence and its
ways, the reason ...
25 May 2014
The
principal defect of the will is the lack of rectitude, called self-love
or inordinate love of self, which forgets the love due to God and that
which we should have for our neighbor. Self-love or egoism is manifestly
the source of ...
31 Aug 2013
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The human virtues are stable dispositions of the intellect and the will
that govern our acts, order our passions, and guide our conduct in
accordance with reason and faith. They can be grouped around .... And I
add; virtues of love, honesty, wisdom, peace, diligence, patience, zeal,
perseverance. prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, faith, hope,
rectitude, obedience, reverence, humility. (2) Concentration ...... St.
Thomas Aquinas. St. Thomas Aquinas Pray for us ...
27 Jul 2012
It
thus loses rectitude of practical judgment and of voluntary election or
choice, by reason of fear, anger, or concupiscence. Thus, during the
Passion, Peter yielded through fear and denied our Lord three times.
When, by reason of a lively emotion or of a passion, we are inclined
toward an object, the intellect is induced to judge that it is suitable
for us, and the will to give its consent contrary to the divine law.(18)
...... St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Thomas Aquinas Pray for us ...