VirTrue - Helping Man Grow in Truth and Virtue

🎙️ Intro Welcome to VirTrue , where we work together to turn away from vice and adopt the virtuous life we are all called to. I’m your host, Jethro Higgins . Today on VirTrue we’re kicking off Season 2 – Hope , and diving into the first sub-virtue: Patience . 🕊️ Virtue Description: Patience (Patientia) Patience is the virtue of enduring trials, suffering, and delay with steadfast hope in God’s pro...

Charity (Caritas) is the highest theological virtue, placing love of God and neighbor at the center of all moral action. According to St. Thomas Aquinas ( Summa Theologica, II-II, Q23–26 ), charity perfects the will by ordering it toward God as the ultimate good , and extends outward in acts of love for others. 💬 Very simply put, Love means to will the good — for God, for others, and for ourselve...

Today on VirTrue we’ll be talking about the virtue of Piety (Pietas) . Piety , a sub-virtue of charity , governs the proper ordering of our affections toward God and neighbor , especially in honoring duties of reverence, worship, and familial or communal responsibilities . According to St. Thomas Aquinas (ST II-II, Q108) , piety perfects the love of God by directing it toward those who share in Hi...

🕊️ Virtue Description Today on VirTrue , we’re talking about the virtue of Concord ( Concordia ). Concord is the fruit of charity that fosters unity, harmony, and peaceful cooperation among individuals and groups. It is not about avoiding conflict but actively cultivating unity through humility, patience, and mutual respect. St. Thomas Aquinas ( Summa Theologica , II–II, Q32) teaches that concord...

A reminder that these are only show notes. Watch the podcast above for the full content, and please share it! 🕊️ Virtue Description Today on VirTrue , we’re talking about the virtue of Liberality ( Liberalitas ). This term may carry political baggage, but in Catholic theology, liberality is a sub-virtue of charity that governs the right use and distribution of external goods in accordance with rea...

🕊️ Virtue Description Peace, as a sub-virtue of charity, represents the harmonious ordering of the soul and of relationships with others, grounded in the love of God and neighbor. It is not merely the absence of conflict; rather, it is an active interior disposition that reconciles differences, fosters understanding, and cultivates patience and prudence. Peace requires the courage to confront inju...

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook for more great content from the Social Catholic. Intro Welcome to VirTrue , where we work together to turn away from vice and embrace the virtuous life we are all called to. I’m your host, Jethro Higgins . 🕊️ Virtue Description Indulgence , in the context of charity , is the virtue that moderates judgment toward the failings of others, tempering strictness wit...

Support this content This weeks episode is sponsored by the Crusader Rosary. Pray for virtue like the knights of old through the intercession of your mother. The Social Catholic is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. ✨ Virtue Definition: Forgiveness (Gratia) While gratia in Latin most directly means grace , favor, o...

💡 What Is Meekness? Meekness is the gentle and calm disposition of the soul that allows a person to endure insult, injury, and hardship without responding in anger. It is not weakness or passivity, but deliberate mastery of one’s passions — the control of strength through reason and love. Meekness ensures that justice and charity remain intact, even in moments of provocation. This virtue moderate...

Virtue Description: Today, we are talking about mercy or Misericordia, which literally translates to “a heart for the miserable.” Mercy is love made active, the movement of charity that responds to suffering not merely with pity, but with a deliberate act of the will to relieve it in accord with justice and truth. It is distinct from the related Compassion and Benignity. Compassion is the inward s...

Virtue Description: Today, we’re talking about Benignity, or Benignitas in Latin. Benignity is the virtue of charity that inclines the will to treat others with kindness, gentleness, and goodwill in all interactions. Aquinas says benignity is closely related to mercy and meekness, but emphasizes the positive affirmation of others’ dignity rather than simply restraining negative impulses. A benign...

Virtue Description: Compassion, a sub-virtue of charity, is the deep empathetic concern for the suffering of others that moves one to act to relieve that suffering. Thomas Aquinas says that to love is to will the good of the other. Compassion is the dimension of that Love that prompts us to move to affect the one we love. We share in their burdens while preserving moral discernment and prudence in...

This episode is brought to you by the Crusader Rosary from The Social Catholic: What is virtue ? What is virtue? And how do we grow in true virtue in a world that often reduces morality to virtue signalling? Modern virtue examples do not represent the reality of virtue depicted for us by great minds like Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Bernard of Clairvox. The virtue signaling of our modern...