3 Keys to a Virtuous Life

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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We aret trained to run businesses, build skyscrapers and create rockets, but we don’t know how to build the most basic things in life; friendship, marriage, and family. Today, Dr. Sri continues his discussion on virtue and teaches us how to educate ourselves in the virtues, how to intentionally practice the virtues in our daily lives, and how to rely on God’s grace to grow in virtue.

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"We get training to run businesses, build skyscrapers and create rockets, but we don’t know how to build the most basic things in life; friendship, marriage, and family. "
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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:07.0	Most of us did not grow up with a specific training in the virtues. At a young
0:18.2	age we learned about the alphabet and the multiplication table. When we got
0:21.8	older we learned about more complex math and science and the a job. We got training and skills, we got information, but we didn't learn what matters most in life.
0:37.1	The art of living life well.
0:40.1	You see there's a grand tradition of the virtues that has existed for over 2,000 years
0:45.9	from pre-Christian great thinkers like Plato and Aristotle and Cicero and then to Augustine,
0:51.6	the great Catholic Bishop,
0:53.2	and to St Thomas Aquinas, the doctor of the church.
0:55.9	There's a grand vision for the art of living life well.
0:59.7	It's called the virtues, the virtues we need
1:02.3	so that we can live friendship well we can live in
1:04.1	community together well that we can build strong marriages and family lives you
1:08.6	we got training so many people get training to to run businesses to build skyscrapers to build rockets but we don't know
1:16.1	how to build the most basic things in life like friendship like marriage, like family.
1:24.2	Most of us didn't get that kind of systematic training in the virtues,
1:27.2	what a virtue is, how the virtues all work together,
1:30.1	what are the vices that undermine virtue,
1:32.3	how do we grow in virtue and overcome our weaknesses?
1:36.1	What can we do now?
1:38.4	I bet you're like me, you want to learn virtue more and more, don't you? You want to grow in virtue not just for yourselves but
1:46.2	you want to pass on virtue to others for those of us that are married and we have
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