Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 4 Cardinal Virtues

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Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With

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The 4 Cardinal Virtues

The 4 Cardinal Virtues
Prudence
Justice
Fortitude
Temperance

Note:
Refrerence Wisdom 8:7. The Cardinal Virtues, unlike the Theological Virtues, can be achieved by human effort.

[Salvation]

This is an open thread for the discussion of the four Cardinal Virtues which can be achieved through our own effort.

The Three Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity are given to us by God.

Big difference between these two sets of virtues!

[Salvation]

If your Bible is limited and you do not have the Book of Wisdom in it........this is for you! Enjoy!

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Catholic Ping!

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From another thread:

 

The four cardinal, or “hinge”, virtues in the natural order are prudence (practical wisdom), fortitude (courage), temperance (moderation), and justice (fairness and harmony within and without).

[NEWwoman]

What a marvelous resource of summaries and reminders of the Christian faith - whether Catholic or Protestant.

Bookmarked website.

[Salvation]

It is a great website. I guess people will just have to live with the name ‘fisheaters’! LOL!

[Salvation]

In case you missed these other FR threads:

Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With [The 7 Sacraments (The Holy Mysteries)]
Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 7 Corporal Works of Mercy
Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy
Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 3 Eminent Good Works
Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 7 Gifts of the Holy Ghost (& the Charismata)
Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 12 Fruits of the Holy Ghost
Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 3 Theological Virtues
Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 4 Cardinal Virtues

[NEWwoman]

Great. Got fisheaters link, too.

[NEWwoman]

Great. Got fisheaters link, too.

[Bigg Red]

I guess people will just have to live with the name ‘fisheaters’!

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Love these lists, Salvation. (Even though some make me grimace with guilt....)

[sayuncledave]

It’s an awesome website. And has an awesome forum, too.

[Salvation]

I didn’t know they had a forum!

[glide625]

O.K. well some enlightenment need be shared here. Some “Christians” think temperance means abstaining from the consumption of all alcohol. Not so when it comes to Beer and Wine. Wine is sacramental and Beer is one of the major food groups. Jesus drank wine; he would have had beer but there wasn’t any available. Beer is food and is good for you when consumed in moderation. It’s even better for you if it’s Guinness.
Just a clarification.

[Salvation]

When you look at this definition it would seem that these "Christians" are limiting the definition of temperance.

TEMPERANCE

The virtue that moderates the desire for pleasure. In the widest sense, temperance regulates every form of enjoyment that comes from the exercise of a human power or faculty, e.g., purely spiritual joy arising from intleectual activity or even the consolations experienced in prayer and emotional pleasure produced by such things as pleasant musci or the sight of a beautiful scene. In the strict sense, however, temperance is the correlative of fortitude. As fortitude controls rashness and fear in the face of the major pains that threaten to unbalance human nature, so temperance controls desire for major pleasure. Since pleasure follows from all natural activity, it is most intense when associated with our most natural activities. On the level of sense feeling, they are the pleasures that serve individual person through food and drink, and the human race through carnal intercourse. Temperance mainly refers to these appetites. (Etym. Latin temperare, to apportion, regulate, qualify.)

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.