Striving for a Virtuous Life

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to be virtuous? Virtue is a word that is mentioned often when talking about faith and the lives of the saints. However, do we understand what it means? Today, Fr. Josh is joined by author Andrew Whitmore to talk about the virtuous life and also discuss Andrew’s new book Saintly Habits: Aquinas' 7 Simple Strategies You Can Use to Grow in Virtue.

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0:44.2	On today's show, the doctors in the house, the doctors in the building, we have Dr. Andrew
0:48.6	Whitmore with us as a guest today.
0:50.7	And he's going to be talking about his new book, Saintly Habits, seven simple strategies
0:55.1	you can use to grow in virtue.
0:58.4	And especially with Lent coming up, I think Lent's a great time to examine our dominant
1:04.3	vices and what virtues the Lord might be inviting us to cultivate during this season of
1:09.9	our lives so we can grow into intimacy with him.
1:12.7	But before we get into this awesome show, this great guest about this great topic, I want
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