The Theological Virtues (Aquinas 101) 

Excellent primer and a good reminder that I need to get Josef Pieper's book on faith hope & charity

It's extremely criminal how low the view counts are for these Thomistic Institute videos considering the high production quality, excellent animation and world-class exposition of the subject matter. These Dominican priests are amazing! Makes me want to join the Dominicans even though I feel more drawn to contemplative orders (also, I'm not smart like Fr. Dominic or Fr. Gregory Pine lol)

This channel is saving my Catholicism.

I hope and pray the next Pontiff is a Dominican like Pope St Pius V. Excellent fruit of the contemplation of the Dominican friars. Thank you for sharing and enlightenment. Blessed be God forever!

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Essential learning for today! Please keep these videos coming!

Thank you for this excellent series.

Thank you Aquinas 101, may God bless you!

I’ve just purchased the whole Secunda Secundae Partis! I’m very excited to read it, especially the first 46 questions about the Holy Virtues.

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Love is all you need.

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I love watching your videos, it makes me more interested in getting to know God more and on a deeper level! Is it possible to be a Catholic Intellectual without entering a religious vocation?

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00:00 Developement, stability and spontaneity of disposition of natural or acquired virtues, like justice, and courage: by repeated action by practice towards the goal of human excellence. 00:29 Limits of nature and of natural virtues: theological virtues go beyond 00:53 Theological virtues understood by Aquinas: powers of the soul, infused into us by God himself and lead us to heaven, begining here and now! 01:19 Sacred Scripture: 3 theological virtues: faith hope and love and being disciple of Jesus 01:44 We know about Heaven (and virtues thourgh which we aspire to Heaven) thanks to Revelation, and in last term, through Christ 02:00 Aquinas makes distinction of two kinds or levels of happiness: 02:08 The first: natural level, happiness that a human being can obtain by his own natural powers by practicing, the natural virtues. Cardinal virtues of prudence, justice temperance and courage may be acquired by repeated good human actions, and thus let someone become who can reach the goal a flourishing and happy life on that natural level 02:52 The happiness of heaven of eternal life with god is something vastly higher. 03:00 Jesus teaches us that by being configured to him, we become adopted sons and daughters of God sharing, in the divine nature our own natural powers are not sufficient to raise us up to this; no amount of human training or moral effort would get us there without the help of GOD’S GRACE . 03:23 Apart from cardinal (natural) virtues, we also need something more to direct us to and makes us capable of living a SUPERNATURAL LIFE, IN SUPERNATURAL HAPPINESS , to be united to GOD himself 03:42 According to Aquinas there are 3 reasons they're called theological virtues that's from the Greek word for God ϑεός (Théos) 03:52 1st) Their object is God himself and they direct us to god 03:58 2nd) we cannot obtain the theological virtues by our natural powers. They must be directly infused in us by God himself 04:07 3rd) we only know about the theological virtues because God has revealed them to us in Sacred Scripture 04:14 Two major errors about the christian life 04:21 a) INSUFFICIENT natural power, MISUNDERSTOOD supernatural happiness: the first error is to think that we can somehow get to heaven by our own natural powers or that the life of heaven will be like a life of earthly happiness. 04:40 It seriously misunderstands that the life of God is infinitely above us. 04:47 Jesus promises us a share in this divine life, which we can only obtain through the GIFT of his GRACE: it's totally out of proportion to our human nature we don't deserve it and we cannot reach it on our own. 05:02 b) A PRIZE? The second error is to think that because it's given to us as a gift. Therefore it's a kind of prize bestowed on us after we die totally unrelated to how we lived our lives in this world. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT EITHER! In fact God bestows the beginnings of eternal life on us EVEN AS WE LIVE IN THIS WORLD BY HIS GRACE. He infuses his divine life into our souls, He configures our minds and our hearts to Christ, and empowers us to live as his disciples here and now. 05:38 That's why saint Paul teaches that christians live no longer as men and women ‘of earth’, but as CITIZENS OF HEAVEN according to the power of Christ's resurrection which makes us die to sin and alive to God through faith, hope and love. 05:53 In short: we're supposed to live our lives according to the theological virtues. They elevate and transform our lives from the inside out. 06:17 Perfection through thological virtues: our capacities of knowing and of loving, or what Aquinas calls ‘our powers of intellect and of will’: the virtue of FAITH perfects our intellect by the light of natural reason, we're able to know and understand the things we encounter; faith bestows a new and higher light on our minds so that we're able to judge rightly about divine things and above all so that we believe what God has revealed to us in Christ faith thus allows us to attain to the Truth about God and makes us adhere to Him as we believe what He tells us. 07:04 In fact Aquinas says that faith makes us like the divine Son who proceeds from the Father by way of intellect as the Father's Word 07:14 The virtue of HOPE also has god as its object and makes us adhere to God, but it's not about our intellect grasping the Truth, rather hope elevates our will so that we place all our trust in God's help since He is perfectly good and the source of all goodness. 07:30 By hope we dare to reach for God himself, and we hope to OBTAIN THIS HAPPINESS FROM GOD ALONE. 07:37 We rely entirely on Him and place our lives and our futures completely in His hands 07:44 Finally the virtue of love or of CHARITY purifies and raises up our will so that it ceases to love the things of this world as final ends and begins TO LOVE GOD FOR HIS OWN SAKE and ABOVE ALL THINGS. 07:58 This supernatural virtue of love makes us like the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son as their mutual love. 08:06 This virtue above all others re-orders all of the priorities of the christian's life all of the christians loves even here and now in this world. If we act by this charity, theneverything we do as christians should point us back to God 08:29 Go to aquinas101.com 08:35 Don't forget to like and share with your friends because it matters what you think and believe.

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Thank you very much! I have a question: Does God infuse the theological virtues into everyone (e.g. irrespective of religion)?

Amongst the Theological Divine Virtues of Faith Hope and Charity which are all Gratuitous given by the Good Lord God freely without any consideration as our Deeds the most important of it all is the Virtue of Charity or Love. St Paul has said in his epistles I could have Faith that can move mountains but if i dont have Charity or Love doesn’t count for anything, I could have tongue to speak in many languages and is eloquent to easily convince and persuade other people and very well versed and highly educated in the Scriptures but have no Charity or love in my heart I count it as Dung! K

Amazing channel, a Godsend. I have a question : The theological virtues are revealed in the Scriptures but can they be also given by a mystical experience? Update...after a second viewing I realized that the virtues are infused by God but known by Scriptures. :) I love our dear Angelic Doctor

Why then do I need cardinal virtues when it is through faith, hope and charity that God sanctifies us? Please provide an explanation, I am writing a paper on virtues and soteriology. Wonderful video and God Bless :)

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Can evil people possess virtue? As in is it possible for them to cultivate even natural virtue when apart from God's saving grace?

Thank-you. I waited in vain to hear you say that we receive these Theological Virtues through baptism. Is this not correct? Can the unbaptized (thinking of my grandkids) turn to God and simply ask for faith, hope and love? Thank-you for your response. God bless you all. We really appreciate Aquinas 101. And may God grant you a blessed Christmas.🙏🏼

This was so very informative. It is all about exorcising the gifts of the spirits by the Gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit always prays good things for us - all 10 Commandments properly balanced within the lively virtues: chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility. Many do not know that God the Father infused into Saint Peter according to Matthew 16 - Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”…

St Thomas teaches giving this a thumbs down gets you to the lake of fire 😇😬

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Hi. For many years I've been treating "honesty" as the eighth cardinal virtue. Jesus makes it plain "Satan is the father of all lies" (John 8:44), which makes God the source of all honesty. (Except deliberately malicious honesty of course, but the 7 deadly sins don't include either malice or dishonesty: strange that!). We agree God is not malicious. HONESTY must be a theological virtue, because it attains all the benefits you ascribe to "faith". 1/ Honesty "perfects the intellect" because it distances people from Satan, the dishonest distorter of the intellect. 2/ Honesty "bestows a higher light on the mind" because if you sow the truth, you will reap the truth. 3/ Honesty "attains the truth about God", because if you "know the truth, the truth will set you free". 4/ Honesty "makes us like the divine word" because God cannot tell a lie. Do you think it would be too late to amend the cardinal virtues to include honesty? Cheers, P.R.

"... and the divine light is infinitly above us...", - equally: moral and intellectual virtues,- through lack of theological virtue, are infinitly far away from - you, - monks in robes! --but the Devil is not!(through the virtue of sinning)

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