The Virtue of Gratitude
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Do you have the virtue of gratitude? With your spouse? With your friends, family and God? Not just saying “thank you” every once in a while, but the consistent disposition to first recognize the blessings others bestow on you and then express thanks to them.
St. Thomas Aquinas offers three key aspects for living the virtue of gratitude.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:17.0 | Do you have the virtue of gratitude? You know here in the United States we're getting ready to celebrate |
| 0:24.4 | the great American holiday of Thanksgiving. So there's a lot of talk about giving thanks this week, |
| 0:29.3 | but I want to talk about the virtue, the virtue of gratitude. Do you have the virtue of gratitude? Not just saying |
| 0:36.6 | thanks every once a while, not just giving thanks on this Thursday here at the end of November, |
| 0:42.3 | not just giving thanks when it's convenient, |
| 0:44.7 | when you happen to remember it, but do you have the virtue of gratitude? Now remember a virtue |
| 0:49.6 | is a habitual disposition to do the good. |
| 0:53.4 | It means this is just a part of you. |
| 0:54.8 | This is like second nature that you tend to express gratitude, |
| 0:59.6 | recognize the gifts and the blessings |
| 1:01.9 | other people have given you in your life, |
| 1:04.0 | the blessings God is bestowed on you in your life, |
| 1:06.0 | and it's just become second nature |
| 1:08.0 | to express that gratitude and desire to repay those |
| 1:12.0 | who have blessed you and have poured their lives out into you. |
| 1:15.4 | Do you have the virtue of gratitude? |
| 1:18.1 | That's what I want to talk about here in this week's podcast. |
| 1:21.2 | But first, let me just take a moment to say thanks to a few |
| 1:24.3 | people out there I want to give a big shout out a big thanks to the many people I |
| 1:28.8 | met in New York City this last week I was speaking in downtown Manhattan there to the young adults we had |
| 1:35.3 | 350 young adults come out there to study theology the body love and responsibility it was |
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