Becoming a Saint: Wisdom from Aquinas to Grow in Virtue

COURSE CONTENT

Becoming a Saint: Understanding Virtue and Growing in Intensity

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LESSON ONE

Becoming a Saint: Understanding Virtue and Growing in Intensity

Acting Like a Saint: Correctly Identifying the Virtuous Mean

Approaching Sainthood: Stages of Growth Toward Virtue

Playing to Your Strengths: Using the Connectivity of the Virtues

Seeing Yourself Like a Saint: Identifying and Eliminating False Virtues

Walking with the Saints: Imitating the Virtuous Exemplar

Praying to the Saints: Infused Virtues and the Sacramental Life

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LESSON ONE

Becoming a Saint: Understanding Virtue and Growing in Intensity

Learn how acting more virtuous than you currently are may hold the key to long term growth. Dr. Whitmore sets the stage and explains why growing in virtue matters on our path to sainthood. He gives St. Thomas Aquinas’ definition of virtue and explains each part of it in depth. He also distinguishes between intellectual and moral virtue, and offers the first of seven strategies for growing in virtue.