Be Ready! The Virtue of Fortitude

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🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Continuing our Advent series: In this week’s podcast, Fr. Javier reflects on the virtue of fortitude, which allows us to overcome difficulties when we need to achieve the good. When confronted by evil and suffering in the world, or challenges in our daily lives, we can easily lose our peace and sense of reason. But, as Fr. Javier explains, it is possible to coexist with pain and suffering and not lose our sense of reason when we seek and grow in the virtue of fortitude. Fr. Javier reflects on...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
0:04.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:11.0	I adore you with profound reverence. I ask your pardon for my sins, and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:20.0	My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord,
0:25.6	my guardian angel intercede for me.
0:30.6	In today's meditation, we want to pray with our Lord
0:35.6	about the virtue of fortitude.
0:40.3	Fortitude is that virtue which allows us to overcome difficulties when we need to achieve the good.
0:50.3	It is about achieving the difficult good.
0:56.0	And for that we need a virtue because so many times we are attacked by fear and we cannot really overcome the obstacles that are presented to us without this
1:18.6	inner strength, which is really this virtue of fortitude or courage.
1:24.6	According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the task of the virtue of fortitude is to remove the hindrance,
1:31.3	which holds back the will from following reason.
1:36.3	And this could be done in the natural plane, just in the human plane, or it could also be a supernatural virtue when it's about reason
1:47.1	enlightened by faith. And it could even be something bigger than a supernatural virtue,
1:54.2	which is the gift of the Holy Spirit, called courage. And that's when we are so docile to the Holy Spirit that we are able to do things that go beyond our strength to be able to accomplish.
2:11.6	The extreme example of this, I think, is dying for the faith.
2:18.3	Our Lord on the cross is by far the greatest example of fortitude that we all have.
2:24.3	The difficult good is therefore not just any good when we're talking about the gift of the Holy Spirit or the supernatural virtue of fortitude.
2:38.6	It is a supernatural good.
2:41.2	It is the good of souls.
2:43.4	It is the good of that brings people to salvation.
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