A quote from Catherine:
We may infer from all our instructions that a strong, lively faith
is the foundation of all virtue.
Looking back on a number of years of working on various virtues (like self-improvement) it is the faith that makes the work more possible and more able to have some positive outcomes. Why work on patience if you do not care about the other? Why work on honesty if you are only trying to live for yourself? Why work on prudence if you do not care what you say or how you say it?
And why work on it at all if you did not have a faith in a God who loves you and wants you to be the very best you can be? What would be the point?
As I go about my life in the dailiness of everything, it is the faith I have that helps me to want to grow in virtue. It is the faith I have that wants me to be the best I can be as a return to the God who loves me.
What virtue or virtues do you need to work on? Is there something in your life that needs to be shored up and disciplined to be a better you? Today think of one virtue to try to improve for the next week.
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