Vocabulary
Virtues
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Nine STeps for Living a Moral Life
100
Knowledge based on human experience, reason, and God's revelation that discovers what we ought to be and what we ought to do to live fully human lives.
What is morality?
100
Belief in God and his promises.
What is faith?
100
Courage to live Christ-like lives.
What is fortitude?
100
Another term for "fear of the Lord."
What is wonder and awe?
100
To guide our conduct we have objective norms which are based on the wisdom of past ages.
What is looking to the law to guide your freedom?
200
The official teaching authority of the Church.
What is the Magisterium?
200
Right reason in action.
What is prudence?
200
Moderation in pursuit of pleasures.
What is temperence?
200
This comes with every right.
What is responsibility?
200
We do this by practicing gratitude, humility, temperance, by sharing the many gifts God has given us, and by living the Commandments.
What is loving yourself?
300
Firm attributes, stable dispositions, habitual perfections of intellect and will that govern our actions, order our passions, and guide our conduct according to reason and faith.
What is virtues?
300
Love of God and neighbor.
What is charity?
300
These virtues enable us to live in relationship to the Blessed Trinity.
What is theological virtues?
300
Who I really am and what I am becoming through my choices and actions.
What is character?
300
By observing the first three commandments and exercising the virtues of faith, hope, and love, we do this.
What is loving God above all?
400
Three important virtues bestowed on us at Baptism tha relate us to God: faith, hope, and love.
What is theological virtues?
400
Trust in God's salvation and graces.
What is hope?
400
A Latin word that means "hinge."
What is cardo?
400
These virtues are natural virtues that can be gained through education and repeated practice in using them.
What is cardinal virtues?
400
Acting as the beautiful creatures God made us to be, that is, in the divine image and possessing tremendous dignity.
What is appreciating the gift of being human?
500
The four hinge virtues that support moral living: prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice.
What is cardinal virtues?
500
Giving God and others their rightful due.
What is justice?
500
St. Thomas Aquinas called this virtue "right reason in action."
What is prudence?
500
The opposite of a virtue.
What is vice?
500
Descerning right from wrong.
What is forming, informing, and following your conscience?
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