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[Nicole8223]

Oh my gosh, this thread is such a breath of fresh air! It is so true that so many have become lost in a quest for the most Catholic knowledge and lost track of the quest for holiness and virtue. Knowledge does not make us holy by a long shot. Knowing Summa Theologica and Thomism and all the Vatican documents means nothing without love...hence the scripture verse we all know so well .

I know that I get caught in this often, thinking that I will show that I have knowledge. Pride is the destroyer of virtue in my eyes, and please, I would love acocuntability while on phatmass. Feel free to call me on if you see this attitude in me. I hate pride...I wish I could purge myself of it! And yet, when I get a dose of humility, I complain. Bleh....

Lord, give me virtue to replace the vice that runs rampant in my heart.

Edited February 23, 2006 by Nicole8223

[Ora et Labora]

[quote name='Nicole8223' date='Feb 23 2006, 11:29 AM']Oh my gosh, this thread is such a breath of fresh air!  It is so true that so many have become lost in a quest for the most Catholic knowledge and lost track of the quest for holiness and virtue.  Knowledge does not make us holy by a long shot.  Knowing Summa Theologica and Thomism and all the Vatican documents means nothing without love...hence the scripture verse we all know so well .

I know that I get caught in this often, thinking that I will show that I have knowledge.  Pride is the destroyer of virtue in my eyes, and please, I would love acocuntability while on phatmass.  Feel free to call me on if you see this attitude in me.  I hate pride...I wish I could purge myself of it! And yet, when I get a dose of humility, I complain.  Bleh....

Lord, give me virtue to replace the vice that runs rampant in my heart.
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It is so true...sometimes even I, an ignorant 15 year old study Catholocism just to prove someone wrong!

[OmniaInstaurareInChristo]

Speaking of charity, for those who attend the Traditional Latin Mass like me, today is Quinquagesima Sunday. Below is what our epistle was:

1 Corinthians 13: 1 - 13
Brethren, If I speak with the tongues of men and of Angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And if I should have prophecy, and should know all mysteries and all knowledge: and if I should have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity is patient, is kind: Charity envieth not, dealing not perversely, is not puffed up, is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth: beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known. And now there remain faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.