Catholic Word of the Day: GIFT OF INTEGRITY, 07-03-10

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GIFT OF INTEGRITY

Total exemption from the sway of concupiscence, whereby man's whole sensitive and imaginative life and activity are completely under control and ruled by reason. This preternatural gift was possessed by Adam and Eve before the Fall. It rendered their enjoyment of the pleasures of sensitive life more intense than ours because their natural faculties, being purer, were therefore keener.

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I never thought of integrity with Adam and Eve, but at first, before their fall, I can see that this definition would fit.

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[Tax-chick]

“Integrity” is the reasoning will and the senses working together, instead of in opposition. I covered the preternatural gifts (integrity, bodily immortality/impassibility, infused knowledge) when I taught 5th grade.

[the invisib1e hand]

integrity...seems i’ve heard that word before...but it’s been a while.