VIRTUES More than just good habits THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES

VIRTUES More than just good habits

THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES These have God himself as their origin, motive and direct object. Infused with God’s grace, they give one the ability to live in a relationship with the Trinity.

Faith: We believe in God and freely commit ourselves to God because God is the true good.

Hope: We desire and await from God eternal life as our happiness.

Charity: We love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.

CARDINAL VIRTUES These are the hinges of a virtuous life.

Prudence: We always use reason to determine how to act in every circumstance.

Justice: Consists in the firm & constant will to give to others their due.

Fortitude: Assures firmness, strength and endurance during difficult or painful situations.

Temperance: Moderates the attraction of pleasures, assures the mastery of will over instincts and provides balance in the use of created goods.

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS Choose a VIRTUE or BEATITUDE and devise a shape to represent that character. Place this shape on a blank sheet of paper, keeping in mind that the colour, placement and size of the shape should show the relationship of the beatitudes or virtues to one another. Write about your selection and show this represents the virtue/beatitudes. Defend your interpretation with specific details (quotes) from the scripture or the YOUCAT.

• Some abstract painters and their work: • Mondrian attempted to represent the world through vertical and horizontal lines which to him represented the two opposing forces: the positive and the negative, the dynamic and the static, the masculine and the feminine. • Wassily Kandinsky was the original abstract artist. He emphasized the general theory among Abstract artists that art should portray the spiritual realm and not just the visual world. He believed a painting should not be analyzed intellectually but allowed to reach those parts of the brain that connect with music.