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- Only holiness will cause us to be that which our priestly vocation
demands; men who are crucified to the world and to whom the world is
crucified; men who mind only heavenly things, and strive with all their
might to turn heavenward also the minds of others. Priestly Perfection
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- Definition-Passion is a motion of the sense-appetite, arising from the
imagination of good or evil, accompanied by corporeal transmutation
(change). Sometimes moderns refer
to them as emotions.
Sense-appetite is the formal element; the corporeal change is the
material element.
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- A sense-good which attracts
- Simply-called love
- when absent-called desire
- when present-called gladness
- A sense-evil which repels
- simply-called hatred
- when absent-called aversion
- when present-called sadness
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- A sense-good that is difficult, but
- attainable-called hope
- unattainable-called despair
- A sense-evil that is arduous, but
- still easy to repel (audacity)
- hard to repel (fear)
- or present and calls for vengeance (anger)
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- First among passions, and the origin of all others is sense-love. Without love, no desire and joy, no
hatred, no aversion, no sadness is possible. In the irascible passions without
love there can be no hope or despair, nor fear, audacity, nor anger.
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- Passions are indifferent to moral good or moral evil
- Passions and voluntariness
- Passions and virtue
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- Intellective cognition
- In the form of
- friendship-love for the other’s sake
- concupiscence-love for my own advantage
- Sense cognition
- Either in the form of
- animal friendship-
- The hen protecting the brood
- Or
- animal concupiscence-
- The hungry dog looking for Alpo
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- This comes before all cognition.
It is identical to the natural inclination of the creature to its
own proper end.
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- The chief source is sense-good.
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- Union
- Adherence
- Ecstasy
- Zeal
- Lover’s lesion
- General influence
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- Q. 30. Often called
concupiscence, is affection toward an absent good. Its opposite is flight
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- This is the rest that follows possession.
- When possession comes by the intellect it is called joy.
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- q. 33. Expansion of the heart;
thirst; hindrance to the use of reason, if the delight is corporal and
fierce. In general delight is
the perfection of operation, though.
- The highest kind of delight is delight in truth, especially delight in
God possessed in eternal life.
Man is judged good or evil by the objects that give him joy.
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- Compassion-Sadness for our neighbor’s evil
- Envy-Sadness at our neighbor’s good
- Anxiety-Which sinks the soul in present evil
- Sloth-Which weighs man down in the face of duty which seems to be too
heavy. From sloth comes laxity,
intellectual or spiritual
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- Loss
- Concupiscence
- Love
- External power
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- Lessens learning power
- Weighs on the soul;
- Weakens operation or impedes
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- Hope arises from a loved object hard to obtain.
- Its opposite is despair which considers this attainment impossible
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- a motion of the appetite faced with evil that cannot be easily resisted.
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- discouragement, which fears the burden of duty,
- shame,
- Regret (lament),
- Hesitation (indecision),
- Stupor (dazed),
- agony.
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- is a motion whereby the soul goes out to conquer a great evil, here and
now imminent.
- This would be the kind of victory necessary to attain the purpose of
hope.
- The audacious are more prompt to begin than to continue. The latter is more difficult and is a
quality or aspect of fortitude.
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- An appetite for vengeance accompanied by heat around the heart.
- Anger has no passion contrary to itself because it deals with evil
difficult to avoid and already present.
- There are two species: bitterness and fury. Fury never rests until it has finished
its task of punishment. The angry
man, says Aristotle is sharp, bitter, and difficult to deal with.
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- delight in the hope of vengeance,
- rush of blood to the heart,
- disturbance of mind and body,
- taciturnity (become emotionally withdrawn)
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- Phil 2:6-7. Though he was in the form of God, did not account equality
with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of
a slave, being born in the likeness of men.
- For Christ kenosis connotes abandonment of his divine prerogatives and
taking on human deficiency.
- By contrast, a believer’s life begins in a state of natural kenosis, a
poverty of indeterminancy, and from there moves toward the perfections
which constitute a virtuous moral life.
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- Habitus is a kind of middle category between potential and action.
- It is capable of facilitating the discharge of responsibility.
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- Virtue qualifies directly the capacities of the soul, not its substance,
such that each capacity -- intellect, will, and sense appetites --
operates according to its maximum performance.
- Virtue disposes to what is best, but the best always means an end to be
achieved, which is either a being’s own activity or something attained
through it.
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- What was the most important thing from today’s lesson for your growth?
- How does it relate to your previous reflections?
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