How many of us in any given moment have a face on us that would be an unapproachable face?

You might say it's a

R-U-F a resting unapproachable face.

Hi, my name is Father Mike Smiths and this is Ascension Presents. So the virtues they're important to know

are even more important to live. So we probably know the cardinal virtues might be the hinge virtues, prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude.

We can talk about those in another time if we haven't talked about them yet. I don't know.

There's probably a link below or a link above if you've if we've talked about them already.

The ancients had those in the Greeks. They talked about them a lot. You know the philosophers and like such a good way to live your life.

Basically what what it takes to live a heroic life or what it takes to live a good life is

justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Right? What it takes to live a holy life are the the logical virtues, faith, open love.

And those are gifts of God that we can cooperate with. But they're gifts, right? Faith, and hope, and love all gifts.

But did you know there's a whole host of other virtues as well. They have the four principal virtues, the three theological virtues,

cardinal virtues, the theological virtues. But you also have these things called social virtues. Right? Social virtues.

What's an example of a social virtue? There's this parable not a parable. It's a story from the Bible.

From the Gospels it actually happened. There were these ten lepers and they met Jesus and they said they were lepers.

So they were going to die basically and up from leprosy and they were outcasts and they said Jesus son of David had a pitiatus, have mercy on us.

So Jesus says go show yourself to the priests. They run off and on the way they were healed. One of them realizing he was healed came back to Jesus,

fill it his feet, and thanked him. And Jesus says, where are the other nine? Hasn't them but this foreigner, the guy was a Samaritan, has not but this but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God.

And you can kind of get the sense that Jesus is like, seriously? You were dead basically. You had leprosy cut off from everyone, going to die.

You're not going to die anymore. You get to rejoin the people, you know, your family's friends. And you're not even going to come back and say thanks.

Here's thankfulness. Thanksgiving, gratitude is what you call that one of the social virtues. It and of itself is good.

But it's almost always in relation to someone else. So it's social, right? It's a relationship virtue. But it's so necessary. Like if we're going to, if we're going to actually have like the heroic virtues that good life, justice, temperance, fortitude, prudence.

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