Ebook: Virtues: Sources of Life (Catholic Foundation Stones series Book 7)

Virtues: Sources of Life

Regarding Faith, anyone who has followed Benedict’s preaching and writings is aware that his primary pastoral concern has been to open wide before all the horizon of God and the awareness of the primacy of God in life for a good and happy existence for individuals and for the building up of a society worthy of man.

Hope is the great portal of faith. Hope for the Christian does not mean a generic desiring and waiting for something that one wants to happen but it means to experience already today as joy and peace the promise that will be realised fully in the great day of the Lord.

In Charity, finally, everything is summed up and enlightens. Side by side with the theological virtues, other virtues support the Christian in his effort to conduct a virtuous life. There are four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance) and there are other virtues as well that are necessary for one’s interior purification and spiritual progress.

These are great tapestries of the theology and spirituality of Benedict XVI.

The Catholic Foundation Stones series created by Vincenzo Santarcangelo and edited by Giuliano Vigini, collects, organises and disseminates the valuable heritage of Benedict XVI. It consists of eight volumes that draw on the rich store of homilies, catechesis and speeches, and offers through the words of Benedict XVI an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of life and of Christian doctrine.

The Eight Volumes of the Catholic Foundation Stones series are:

1.Learning to believe
2.Jesus: Words and Deeds
3.The Church
4.Our Lady
5.The Seven Sacraments
6.The Commandments
7.The Virtues of God
8.Life of Prayer