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The Theological Virtues: By: Ronnie T. Rogero BSED III General Science

The three theological virtues are faith, hope, and charity. They are infused by God into believers and allow them to live in relationship with the Holy Trinity. Faith is believing in God and all that he has revealed. Hope responds to the desire for happiness and sustains believers. Charity, or love, is loving God above all else and loving others for God's sake. These virtues animate Christian moral activity.

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The Theological Virtues: By: Ronnie T. Rogero BSED III General Science

The three theological virtues are faith, hope, and charity. They are infused by God into believers and allow them to live in relationship with the Holy Trinity. Faith is believing in God and all that he has revealed. Hope responds to the desire for happiness and sustains believers. Charity, or love, is loving God above all else and loving others for God's sake. These virtues animate Christian moral activity.

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The Theological

Virtues

By: Ronnie T. Rogero BSED III General


Science
Theological Virtues 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. 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.  There
are three theological virtues:
faith, hope, and charity.
Faith is the theological virtue by which
we believe in God and believe all that he
has said and revealed to us, and that
Holy Church proposes for our belief,
because he is truth itself. By faith "man
freely commits his entire self to God."
For this reason the believer seeks to
know and do God's will. "The righteous
shall live by faith." Living faith "work[s]
through charity."

The gift of faith remains in one who has


not sinned against it. But "faith apart
from works is dead": when it is deprived
of hope and love, faith does not fully
unite the believer to Christ and does not
make him a living member of his Body.
The virtue of hope responds to the
aspiration to happiness which God has
placed in the heart of every man; it takes
up the hopes that inspire men's activities
and purifies them so as to order them to
the Kingdom of heaven; it keeps man
from discouragement; it sustains him
during times of abandonment; it opens
up his heart in expectation of eternal
beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is
preserved from selfishness and led to the
happiness that flows from charity.
Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God
above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as
ourselves for the love of God.
 
Jesus makes charity the new commandment. Whence
Jesus says: "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved
you; abide in my love." And again: "This is my
commandment, that you love one another as I have loved
you."
 
Fruit of the Spirit and fullness of the Law, charity keeps
the commandments of God and his Christ: "Abide in my
love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in
my love."
 
Christ died out of love for us, while we were still
"enemies." The Lord asks us to love as he does, even our
enemies, to make ourselves the neighbor of those farthest
away, and to love children and the poor as Christ himself.
1 Corinthians 13
calling to mind your work of faith and
labor of love and endurance in hope..."
In 1 Thessalonians 5:8, he refers to this
triad of virtues again, "But since we are
of the day, let us be sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love and the
helmet that is hope for salvation."

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