Prudence and the Examined Life in Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth: a man thinking on the beach

Spiritual growth means filling your life with the goodness that God has planned for you. The virtue of prudence is the cardinal virtue of identifying authentic human good and making a plan to attain it. There are three stages of prudence: Examining your own life, growing in the wisdom of what is right and wrong,…

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The Well-Ordered Life: Bringing Order to Your Physical Space

The first step of Catholic spiritual growth is to grow in the virtue of prudence to live a well-ordered life. Then you can take the time to pray, to nurture your relationships, and to do all of the other things necessary to deepen your relationship with God. The well-ordered life includes practical elements like time…

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The Virtue of Prudence: Living Deliberately

The Virtue of Prudence: Living Deliberately

So, we’ve talked about the moral virtue of prudence. We’ve seen how this virtue can help us take control of our time and move our lives forward. This is the first step in using this virtue to fulfill your human potential. How the Virtue of Prudence Helps You Fulfill Your Human Potential Prudence is a natural virtue, associated…

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When Everything Changes…

“Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.” – James 1: 17, Douay-Rheims Sharon has been going through a season of change in her life. There have been positive changes like the start of her online…

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Sunday Reading: The people saw the sign he had done.

Sunday Reading: The people saw the sign he had done.

Today’s Readings for the Holy Mass It’s interesting that Jesus’ “multiplication of the loaves” miracle was first performed by the prophet Elijah. Interesting, but not surprising. In fact, much of what Jesus does in his earthly ministry is a fulfillment of the Old Testament signs. For Elijah, the miracle was a sign of God’s love…

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What is Risk

We begin our look at overcoming spiritual mediocrity by examining what it means to take a risk. People tend to automatically see risk as a bad thing. It’s seen as a chance of loss or peril. But there’s more to risk than meets the eye!

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The Virtue of Prudence: Making Relationship a Priority

Moral Virtue: Friends huddling

In this series on the Well-Ordered Life, we have taken a look at the challenge most Catholics face finding time to grow in their faith, where the moral virtue of prudence can help us. The reason that being too “busy” is the wrong way to look at time challenges Why we are so overwhelmed and the…

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The Well-Ordered Life – Making the Tough Choices

The Well-Ordered Life – Making the Tough Choices

Living a well-ordered life with prudence (virtue) is the first step of Catholic spiritual growth. Unless we have the time, energy and attention to give to our relationship with Jesus, we cannot expect that relationship to grow. We’ve seen how we can reclaim some of the time in our day through planned responses to the…

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