~The Three Prayers

Karitas The third and greatest of the Divine virtues enumerated by St. Paul (1 Corinthians 13:13), usually called charity, defined: a div...

Invidia Envy is a food of the mind, corrupting it with its poisonous juices and never ceasing to make it wretched and miserable at the pr...

Desparatio I'm beginning this with a longer-than-usual quote defining despair because I think it's important to understand what ...

Pentecost, Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel Sequence for Pentecost Come, Thou Holy Spirit, come,  And from Thy celestial home She...

Then he led them out as far as Bethany and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was ca...

Spes . . . a Divine virtue by which we confidently expect, with God's help, to reach eternal felicity as well as to have at our dis...

Infidelitas And Judah was taken into exile because of their unfaithfulness. I Chronicles 9:1 The idols of the nations are silver and ...

Fides   Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen Because of it the ancients were well attested.By f...

I haven't been writing the past few days because I hurt my right shoulder and left elbow and needed to give them some rest. Since I...

Stultitia The shrewd always act prudently but the foolish parade folly. Proverbs 13:16 The tongue of the wise pours out knowledge, but ...

Prudentia Home and possessions are an inheritance from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD. Proverbs 19:14 I, Wisdom, dwell wi...

Inconstancia But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried abou...

Fortitudo The glory of fortitude, therefore, does not rest only on the strength of one's body or of one's arms, but rather on the...

Ira Does anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the LORD? Can one refuse mercy to a sinner like oneself, yet seek p...

Temperentia   Temperance is here considered as one of the four cardinal virtues. It may be defined as the righteous habit which makes a m...