The Triple Crown of Virtues
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Whatever happened to virtue? Sometimes it can seem like our world is greatly lacking in virtue. Every person struggles to grow in virtue. It requires effort and perseverance to grow in virtue. Yes, we can pray for God to help us grow in virtue, but we must also strive for it ourselves. Jeff Cavins explains what growth in virtue looks like and he also explains some of the primary virtues.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven's show where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and |
| 0:05.4 | evangelization putting it all together and living as activated disciples. |
| 0:17.0 | This is show 375, the Triple Crown of Virtues. Welcome to the show again this week. Hey it's good to be with you it really is and I hope |
| 0:27.8 | that you're doing well with all that's going on in the world all the you know the college the college stuff and some of the the unrest around the world can make a person |
| 0:39.6 | feel like we're going crazy a little bit and whatever happened to virtue, |
| 0:43.7 | whatever happened to patience and kindness and gentleness in the world. |
| 0:48.7 | Well, if you don't have kindness and gentleness and goodness, well you don't, right? |
| 0:55.9 | But you can, you can. |
| 0:57.6 | And we wish that everybody had it. |
| 0:59.5 | And we above all people as Christians should be the people who walk in virtue. |
| 1:05.2 | You know a virtue is a good act, a virtue is a good and holy act and it comes about as a result of repeatedly doing something. You know, it's a discipline in her life. |
| 1:20.7 | If you want to be kind, you work on kindness. You work hard on kindness. |
| 1:26.0 | You develop habits around kindness. And before you know it, you have a virtuous aspect that is operating in your life but it doesn't come easy at |
| 1:38.0 | all and I and I think that sometimes people think when it comes to virtues that it really should come |
| 1:46.0 | into my life simply as a result of praying. I don't know where that comes in. I don't know why |
| 1:51.5 | people think that. It's like Lord I'm gonna I'm gonna pray for |
| 1:55.6 | patience I'm not going to work on it but I'm gonna pray for it and I know you can |
| 2:01.4 | answer prayer Lord and so I'm going to pray every day |
| 2:04.5 | for patience and then maybe a week or two from now my wife should probably see |
| 2:10.3 | some difference in my life in the area of patience. It doesn't work that way. It just doesn't work that way at all. |
| 2:16.4 | There's nothing wrong with praying that God will help you in the area of patience, but you're going to have to work at it and that's what a virtue is. A virtue is a repeated |
| 2:26.0 | pattern, it's a discipline that you do over and over until it becomes part of your nature, it becomes part of your life if you will and but there's a key |
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