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And talking about virtue, right?

So this retreat is on the masculine and feminine virtues.

So I thought the first talk, the way we worked it out, ought to just touch on what virtue is before we think about

what virtue is for a man or for a woman so that we're all on the same page. So we do have,

of course, some idea of what we mean by virtue, but we might have different ideas as well.

So to think about how in the Christian tradition, especially in the domestic tradition,

we might be thinking about what virtue is, is where I'm going to start.

And although we'll be, I'll be using philosophical distinctions. I do teach philosophy, things that Aristotle

distinguished about virtue and happiness and so forth. I want to approach these, as St. Thomas did,

in the light of faith. And I think we're sort of encouraged to do that by the whole context.

This is an intellectual retreat. We just prayed and adore the Lord and expose the less of sacrament.

We're going to be praying, having mass together, liturgy at the hours.

So it feels like this is what we ought to be doing is thinking about the virtues in terms

of our Christian life specifically.

And maybe that's also helpful for us today in our culture and our context,

because I'm thinking about trying to talk about something like virtue, we might realize

that people have very different ideas.

Of course, Aristotle has great ideas

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