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O God, who have taught us to chasten our bodies for the healing of our souls, enable us,

we pray, to abstain from all sins and strengthen our hearts to carry out your loving commands through our Lord Jesus Christ

your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit God forever and ever

amen the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I use that prayer because it's a good

example of how the liturgy really sees the human person as an integrated whole of, you know,

body, soul, mind, heart, and all of this for the obedience of faith.

And if you were to take,

if you were to actually look at the collics for the first week of Lent,

it is quite interesting how often in that first week of Lent,

the opening colleagues for the Mass or for the Divine Office,

speak about the Enlightenment of the Mind. In other words, it isn't just a

question of affect, but of understanding, enlightening the mind, enlightening our

understanding, Christ be our light, etc. Which is simply to kind of affirm what

we've been talking about. What I want to briefly talk about this afternoon is to simply talk a little bit more

about St. Thomas' idea of virtue and then how the capital sins fall into the role that they play in, you might say, bringing forth the life of virtue.

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