Throwback Episode: The Triple Crown of Virtues

October 2, 20260 comments♥ 0
00:00Welcome to the Jeff Kaven show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, putting it all together in living as activated disciples.This is show 375, The Triple Crown of Virtues.Welcome to the show again this week.Hey, it's good to be with you.It really is.And I hope that you're doing well with all that's going on in the world, all the, you know, the college stuff.And some of the unrest around the world can make a person feel like we're going crazy a little bit.And whatever happened to virtue, whatever happened to patience and kindness and gentleness in the world,
00:48well, if you don't have kindness and gentleness and goodness, well, you don't, right?But you can.You can.And we wish that everybody had it.And we, above all people as Christians, should be the people who walk in virtue.You know, a virtue is a good act.Virtue is a good and holy act.And it comes about as a result of repeatedly doing something.
01:18You know, it's a discipline in our life.If you want to be kind, you work on kindness.You work hard on kindness.You develop habits around kindness.And before you know it, you have a virtuous aspect that is operating.in your life. But it doesn't come easy at all. And I think that sometimes people think when it comesto virtues that it really should come into my life simply as a result of praying. I don't knowwhere that comes in. I don't know why people think that. It's like, Lord, I'm going to pray for
01:55patience. I'm not going to work on it, but I'm going to pray for it. And I know you can answer prayer,Lord. And so I'm going to pray every day for patience and then maybe a week or two from now.My wife should probably see some difference in my life in the area of patience.It doesn't work that way. It just doesn't work that way at all.There's nothing wrong with praying that God will help you in the area of patience,but you're going to have to work at it. And that's what a virtue is. A virtue is a repeatedpattern. It's a discipline that you do over and over until it becomes part of your, of youryour nature. It becomes part of your life, if you will. But there's a key to growing that.
02:38There's a key to growing the human virtues. And that's what I want to talk to you about today.By the way, if you do want show notes for any of the shows, all you got to do is text my name,Jeff Kavens, one word, Jeff Kavins, and you can text it to the number 33777. That's 3377.All right. Oh, by the way, I know there's a couple ofof people that emailed me and said that they did get the notes and they're not now, then do it againand we'll check up on that, but go ahead and just do it again. We'll get you back on board.Sorry about that. Okay, so we're talking about the triple crown of virtues, and we're talkingabout various kinds of virtues. And that's one thing about the Catholic Church that is interesting,
03:22and at the same time, it can become an impediment to learning, and that is there's a lot. There's a lot.It's all good, but there's a lot. It's like going to a great big.department store and every aisle is filled with good things, just absolutely good things.The church, while not being a department store, every aisle is filled with good things.Or should I say every pew, every area of the church is filled with marvelous gifts and treasuresthat we have had from the beginning.So I think that breaking this down today and helping you to understand in real layman's terms,what the virtues are all about might be helpful in you develop.
04:01helping patients. And I'll use patience as my example today because I hear so often, particularlywith men, that they lack patience. They wish they had more patience with their kids. They wishthey had more patients at work or with their spouse. And it can go either way, you know. Women,many times will say I'm really disappointed in my patience with the kids. And I think we've allexperienced that to one degree or another. So I want to start off by saying this.there are three very, very important virtues that have been given to us, that are in our soul.They have been planted in our soul.And these three virtues, you know them very well, these three virtues are called theological virtues.
04:53Big fancy names.See, we're getting into the weeds here a little bit, but it's important to know what we're calling them.They're called the theological virtues.Now, these theological virtues are incredibly important.They're very, very important.And you receive them at baptism.You know, when we talk about being baptized, you talk about being baptized,it's good to say, yes, you have been born anew, of course.
05:21You have been born and new.You're a new person, and that's true.You are knit to the church.You are brought into the church.you're a member of the church.Your sins are forgiven, right?And there's a certain measure of the Holy Spirit that you have in your life.You gain even more of this in confirmation.
05:40But at baptism, you certainly gain a relationship with the Holy Spirit.And at baptism, you receive these three virtues.Now, these three virtues are faith, hope, and charity.I'm going to use the word love just to explain this, and I know there's a slight difference there.But I think it's easier to understand if I say that at baptism when you went into the water and came out of the water or you were sprinkled,and no matter if you were a baby or if you were 45 years old when you were baptized,you received three things in your soul.They were put into your soul and you are different.
06:22One minute after baptism, you are different than one minute before.that is you have faith, you have hope, and you have love, charity. And it's in your soul. Now, if youwere 45 years old and you were baptized and you came up out of the water of baptism or you weresprinkled, maybe you would have said, I don't feel that different. Well, that might be true.That might be true. But nevertheless, you received faith and you received hope and you receivedlove, charity in your heart. And if you were baptized as a baby and you're 45 years old now or you're65 years old now or whatever age you might be, you might ask, well, did they wear out?You know, in other words, have they been on the shelf for so long? I haven't really been working on
07:12them. Is there a chance that they just went bye-bye? The answer is no. No, you have this in your soulif you've been baptized. If there's grave sin in your life, I would highly encourage you to go to confessionpronto now, because grave sin, mortal sin, breaks the relationship with God. You're in trouble.And so I would encourage you to go to confession. But if you were baptized and you haven't done anythingwith it for years, the question is, do you still have faith, hope, and charity? And the answer is, yes, you do.And so those three things are very, very important.And what I have been noticing over the last week is not only the beauty and the splendor of faithand the beauty and splendor of hope and charity, but one of the things I've been looking at this week is the intercommunication between them,
08:08how faith and hope work together, how love works on faith and how faith relates to hope.and it has become like this triangle or what I'd like to call the triple crown of virtuesthat work with each other.And the result is, or the fruit is, a Christian life that is growing, maturing.It is making progress.And this is one of the things I've noticed about my life, you know, in the past, not so much recently, but in years past.And I've noticed in other people as well is that,They lack a sense of growing.
08:47They lack a sense of maturing or developing as a man of God, as a woman of God.And you look at kindness in their life and say, you know what?That guy's been, well, he said he's a Christian for the last 25 years.That guy is not one bit kinder today than he was 25 years ago.That guy has no more peace today than he had 25 years ago.He has no more love or hope or charity than he did back.when I knew him in high school.So you say, hmm, wonder why that is.
09:20Well, it has to do with our participation in what God has given us.And so I want to take a look at those three theological virtues for a moment.And then let's look at how the human virtues that we are so familiar with, you know,we have nine basic ones, human virtues.Aristotle had 12.I'll share those with you as well.But, okay, let's start off with the three theological virtues.If you've been baptized, you got them.
09:51All right, the first one is faith.Now, faith is something that you hear people talk about when they say, well, you know what, I just don't have faith.Well, that's not true.If you're baptized, you've got faith.But what is faith?Well, faith, there's a big difference between faith and believism.when someone says, I believe, I believe with all of my heart, what they mean oftentimes is I'm really hoping with all of my heart.That's what I'm doing. I'm really hoping in something, hoping for my future.
10:30But faith? Well, biblical faith, according to Pope Benedict, has two components to it.number one is a mental assent. In other words, you believe something. You believe something. And number two is you personallyentrust yourself to that which you believe. You entrust yourself to God in that area. That's faith. Faith is active. Faith is alive. It'ssharper than any two-edge its sort. Faith is very, very powerful. It's not passive. It's not wishful thinking. And the catechism talks about this, the onlyvirtue of faith when it says in paragraph 1814, and I'll put these in the show notes for you if you'rejogging, but it says faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe allthat he has said and revealed to us and that the Holy Church proposes for our belief because he istruth itself. And then it goes on and says that by faith man freely commits his entire self to God.
11:37For this reason, the believer seeks to know and do God's will. That's faith. The righteous shalllive by faith. And that comes from Habakkuk. And actually, in the Hebrew, it says the righteous shalllive by his faith, his faith. We don't just make up faith. We're living by God's faith,his faith. That's long continuance. That is steadfastness. That's faithfulness.Now the church teaches us concerning faith that the gift of faith remains in one who has not sinned against it, but faith apart from works is dead.When we talk about faith, faith apart from works is dead, when it is deprived of hope and love.When it is deprived of hope and love, faith does not fully unite the believer to Christ and does not make him a living member of his body.So let me say that again. When faith is deprived of hope and love, faith does not nullify, unite, does not fully unite the believer to Christ, put it that way. Let me start that over. You might have confused you there. When, let's go back even further, but faith, apart from works is dead. When it is deprived of hope and love, faith does not fully unite the believer to Christ and does not make him a living member.
13:03of his body. So for the disciple of Jesus Christ, like you and me, we must not only keep the faith andlive on it, but also profess it, confidently, bear witness to it and spread it. All, however, must beprepared to confess Christ before men and to follow him along the way of the crossamidst the persecutions which the church never lacks. That's what the Catechism says. That's what theCatechism says in paragraph 1814 to 1816. Suffice it to say that faith is this theologicalvirtue by which we believe in God. We believe in God and that believing in God is faith and works.Not works of the law in the Old Testament, like you have to sacrifice or you have to do this onSunday or you have to follow this particular law in Leviticus. No.
14:02Jesus fulfilled that law in the Old Testament. He fulfilled the law, but we still are bound by the morallaw, which is the Ten Commandments. We still do not kill, you know, we don't murder, I should say,we don't murder, we don't steal, we don't, we don't covet, we don't commit adultery, we don't doall of these, all of these things. But we're free from the law, the ceremonial law, but when we talkabout works, we're not talking about that law in the Old Testament. We're talking about living ourfaith and doing what Jesus called us to do. Those are the works we're called to. And biblical faithis believing yes, but doing yes. It's both of them, both of them together. So faith becomesincredibly important. Then after that, you have hope. You have hope. And hope is one of the
14:57words that we throw around a lot. And we typically will say things like, well, I hope so.You know, somebody says, are we going to go out to eat tonight? Well, I sure hope so. Well, that kind ofhope so is quite a bit different than, you know, hoping for your children to serve Christ whenthey grow up. That's very, it's very, very different. Or believing God in hoping for healingin your life of some kind. So hope, you know, the Hebrew word for hope is Tikva.You know what? I'm going to put this in the notes for you.And the Hebrew word for faith is emunah.And I'll put that in the notes for you too.
15:34But hope, the word is Tikva.And when we talk about hope, we are not talking about a hope so.We're talking about a deep, deep hope in our heart for heaven, for God, that God has put in our heart.The catechism has a lot to say about it.I'll just share a little bit here.It says regarding hope, hope is the theologism.virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing ourtrust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace
16:10of the Holy Spirit. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, Scripture says. Let us holdfast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. The Holy Spirit,He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life.You see, this virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness, which God is placed in the heart of every person.You have this in your heart, this desire for happiness.And this virtue of hope responds to that.it responds to that. Now, oftentimes what we do is we hope based on things. We hope in money.We hope in skilled labor. We hope in the stock market. We hope in chariots and horses and whatever it
17:08might be. And the Bible is very clear. We don't hope in chariots. We don't hope in other men.Our hope is in God. And our hope of eternal life, we maintain all the way to the last breath.That's why when people ask a Catholic, are you saved?Our answer is, is I hope so.That doesn't mean that I have all these doubts.It means I am placing my salvation in my hope, in God and his faithfulness.And I want to be faithful all the way to the very end.I want to.
17:45But we, you know, when we talk about just generic hope in our lives, which is what we're dealing with mostly,on a daily basis, is that it is a projection of the future, but without God and without thistheological virtue of hope, then all we can do is hope for tomorrow based on our limited knowledge,our wisdom, our skill set, our experience. And when we start to hope whatever it is for tomorrow,in tomorrow, based on all of these things that are limited, well, we can go into it.to despair. But if our hope is in God and our future is rooted in God, then our hope is notdependent upon our limited wisdom and experience and knowledge, but in his unlimited wisdom,knowledge, and wisdom. And so my hope is in God. My hope is thoroughly rooted in God.
18:46And so faith and hope are related to God, my relationship with God, my trust in God, my desire for God, in the kingdom, and heaven.That is so very, very important.So we can therefore hope in the glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and do his will.In every circumstance, each one of us should hope with the grace of God to persevereign.veer to the end and to obtain the joy of heaven. So you've got faith and hope. We're going to take abreak. When we come back, we're going to look at charity and then look at how these blend and how we cangrow human virtues. You're listening to the Jeff Kaven show. I'm my name's Father MikeSchmitz. I want to let you know about an exciting announcement that could revolutionize the way you
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21:12walking with Jesus, knowing the Holy Spirit is inside of us, and the Holy Spirit is reminding us of allthat Jesus taught and giving us the strength and the wisdom to navigate life.It just doesn't get any better than this.So we were talking about faith and talking about hope, but then the third is charity.Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake.and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.Now, this is one of the three theological virtues,as I mentioned before the break,
21:50three virtues that you received at baptism.There is no saying, I don't have faith, hope, and charity.Because you do.You do.You know, why I know?Because God put it there.And what God put there stays there.You know, unless you break your relationship totally off with the Lord.
22:07And you've got a bit of a problem there.confession is in order. So charity, think about charity slash love. Charity is the theological virtuegiven by God, put into your soul by which we love God above everything, all things, all stuff,all experiences, all people, everything, every living thing. We love God above everything forhis own sake. And our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God. And so we've got kind of afork with two ways to go. One is loving God with all of our heart. The other with charity is we love ourneighbor for the love of God. So that's what's given to you at baptism. You know, the catechism says in paragraph 1823of the catechism that Jesus makes charity the new commandment by loving his own to the end. He makes
23:05manifest the Father's love which he receives. By loving one another, the disciples are doing what?By loving one another, the disciples are imitating the love of Jesus, which they themselves receive.When Jesus says, as the Father has loved me, so I loved you, abide in my love.and again, this is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.This is what we're talking about.You've been given charity.You can love God.You can love God.
23:43And you can love your neighbor.It goes on in the catechism and says that Christ died out of love for us while we were still enemies.The Lord asks us to love as he does, even our enemies,to make ourselves the neighbor of those.farthest away, and to love and to love children and the poor as Christ himself. So this is very,very practical. Now, the practice of all the virtues is animated and inspired by charity,which binds everything together in perfect harmony. So when we talk about charity, this love,we have to realize that there's something even more special about charity and love.
24:27In fact, Paul said to the Corinthians, if you don't have this, you're a noisy gong, a clanging symbol.You can have all the gifts in the world and all the talents in the world, but if you don't have charity, you are nothing.You're nothing.And all of the virtues are animated and inspired by charity, which I love it, the way the catechism puts it, binds everything together in perfect harmony.It is the form of the virtues.It articulates and orders them among themselves.It is the source and the goal of their Christian practices.You know, you read the catechism, which I encourage you to do.
25:06You can run into some paragraphs that are like,whoa, I got to stop and think about that one for just a little bit.Maybe that one is one of those paragraphs.But I would say this, that when it comes to charity,this binds together all of the virtues.charity is so important. And so when you look now at these three theological virtues,it is important to realize that the human virtues come forth or are rooted, rather, in the theologicalvirtues. The three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity are rooted in God. They have their
25:52relationship directly with God, faith, hope, charity.And then the human virtues, like love in the sense of not agape, but the love that we have,maybe filo or brotherly love, peace, joy, forbearance, goodness, kindness,gentleness, faithfulness, self-control.These human virtues, these human virtues are related to the three theological virtues.virtues. They're related. They're related there. That's an important point to make. The human virtuesare rooted in the theological virtues, which adapt man's faculties for participation in the divinenature. For the theological virtues relate directly to God. They dispose Christians to live in a
26:44relationship with the Holy Trinity. They have the one and triune God for their origin,motive and object. Now, the theological virtues are the foundation of Christian moral activity,these three that we've been going through, and they animate it and give it its special character.One of the things that makes us different than the world is these special virtues of faith,hope, and charity. They inform and give life to all of the moral virtues, like courage, temperance,you know, like self-control, like gentleness and kindness and friendliness and truthfulness,even wit, modesty, justice.So if you want to grow in these human virtues like patience and kindness,
27:41then you're going to have to have a relationship to the theological virtues.the human virtues are going to have to be rooted somewhere.Not in thin air, not in I wish I pray, I wish I had a, not in the Lord, oh, just give it to me.But the human virtues are rooted in the theological virtues.And the theological virtues are the foundation of the Christian moral activity.They animate it and give it its special character.Now, these human virtues are firm attitudes.They are stable dispositions.
28:23They are habitual perfections of intellect and will that govern our actions, order our passions, and guide our conduct, and guide our conduct according to reason and faith.They make possible ease, self-mastery, and joy in leading a morally good life.The virtuous man is he who freely practices.the good. And that's what the human, that's what the human virtues are all about, is practicing gooduntil this becomes, well, it becomes a habit. Now, let me introduce you to another set of virtues.We've got the theological virtues, those three. We have all of the human virtues, which are rootedin the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. And of those human virtues, the church tellssomething about them that is interesting here, and I think you need to know it, and that is this.
29:23In paragraph 1805, it says, four virtues play a pivotal role, and accordingly are calledcardinal. And it says, all the others are grouped around them. So what are the four cardinalvirtues that all the other moral virtues are ordered around, grouped around? Well,Well, that's number one, prudence, number two, justice, number three, fortitude, and number four, temperance.So when it comes to the human virtues, the things that you really want to develop in your marriage and in your relationship and with people at work with your children, in your own life, you know, if you want to develop virtues in all these areas, then all of those virtues are grouped around.prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.And if anyone loves righteousness, wisdom's labors, wisdom's labors are virtues, for she teaches temperance.I'm reading now from paragraph 1805, continuing on with it here.
30:36If anyone loves righteousness, wisdom, wisdom's labors are virtues, for she teachestemperance and prudence, justice and courage.these virtues are praised under other names in many passages of scripture.The moral virtues are acquired by human effort.They are the fruit and seed of morally good acts.They dispose all the powers of the human being for communion with divine love.Now, I'm going to break away from that just for a little bit herebecause I don't want to cloud the simplicity of what we're talking about here
31:12with a lot of words that people might not understand.but I would encourage you to read in the catechism the sections on human virtue and the cardinal virtues and thetheological virtues. And I'm going to put those in the notes for you just to make it a little bit easier.You might want to take your time in that.Now, going back to the one text that I started out with, which was in Colossians 1-5, it says,the faith, there's a cardinal virtue.And love, there's a cardinal virtue.That spring from the hope, there's the third cardinal virtue, all three of them.
31:52Right there in one verse.The faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about whichyou have already heard in the true message of the gospel.Now, this is powerful because listen to this now.How does this work together, these triple crown virtues, faith, hope, and charity?Listen, as believers, there is hope within our hearts.God placed that hope in your heart, the hope to know God in heaven, the hope to be in heaven, the hope to see him face to face.There's a good future.
32:25It's a bright future for you.It's heaven.He's put that desire in your heart.That hope was put in your heart, a hope that is not based on our limited knowledge and experience, but upon God's inexhaustible knowledge.and power and wisdom, it is a hope with a good future. And we give evidence to this hope within our hearts.How? How do you give evidence of this hope for heaven and to be with God forever and ever?How do you give evidence to this hope? With our hearts by faith. We walk by faith. We believe God.make mental assent. Yes, I believe your word, Lord. And then we entrust ourselves to him. Do you see how that
33:18works between hope and faith? You can have hope that goes beyond hope so. You can have hope to see God,hope for heaven. And how do we express that? How do we give evidence to this hope? We walk by faith.We walk by faith. We believe and we do what we believe. That is to say we respond to this hope,by living a life of faithfulness.Wow.And once again, this is not based on our limited knowledge and resources,but a faithfulness based on his faithfulness.And here's the deal.
33:55Number three, with charity.Charity binds it all together.We hope and we walk in faith.And charity guides us every step of the way.We love God and we love our neighbor.and if you bring those three together, oh my, you have a hope for the future.It's evidenced by your faithfulness and you express love for God and love for one anotherin the context of this walk with God, this wonderful coming together of the Triple Crown of faith, hope, and charity.
34:33And when you do this and you start to develop the human virtues,that I mentioned earlier of kindness and gentleness.You can't develop those unless they are rooted.They are rooted in the theological virtues.You must have a relationship with God.You must practice these virtues in your relationship with God,in faith, in hope, in charity,and you do it over and over and over.
35:04And that's how you develop human virtue.Now, I mentioned earlier, Aristotle had 12. He had courage, temperance, liberality, magnificence, pride, magnanimity, a good temper, friendliness, truthfulness, wit, modesty, and justice. Those are good. And there are many more, by the way, of these human virtues. I think it's safe to say that a virtue is exactly what you'd want your neighbor to have. It's what you want your spouse and your kids to have. It's what we wish everybody had on the news, right?Well, let it start with us.We're the people who are virtuous.And we're the people who have been given faith, hope, and charity.And in faith, hope, and charity, all the human virtues are now rooted.That's why they grow.That's why you can become gentle, my friend.
35:56That's why you can become kind.You can become joyful.Because those three theological virtues that you have, those are in your heart.and all these things that we're trying to grow,they're rooted in them.You root them in them.You grow in light of the three theological virtues.I love this stuff.
36:15And I'll tell you, I'm challenged by it, though.And I know that this is what I want to do in my life is I want to grow in virtue.And but it starts with cultivating faith, hope, and charity in my life.And that is the Christian life.This is how we live.It's how we live.And, you know, we just had a reading not too long ago in the liturgy that where Jesus,he brings up something kind of interesting, and you've heard it before where Jesus said,
36:44it's good that I go to the Father.It's good that I go to the Father.And I'm thinking, what?Why is it good that you go to the Father?He says, because now I can give the Spirit of Truth into your life.And yes, I walked with you in the Gospels.but today I walk in you.I'm in you.
37:06And the Holy Spirit will help you to grow in these virtues.It's beautiful.Let's pray.And I'll give us many of these notes in the show notes.They don't have to worry about writing them all down at this point.But will you join me in prayer and just let's ask God to help us to be the type of people that we wish the world was,that we would be virtuous people.In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Lord, we thank you for this opportunity to share.
37:36We thank you for the opportunity to come together as members of the body of Christ to share the good things that you have given us.Lord, we are so grateful that you've given us faith, hope, and charity.We are.We're so grateful and thankful that you have given these three theological virtues to us.May we be good stewards of this and cultivate faithfulness in our life,cultivate hope in our life and cultivate charity.May we not take them for granted and may we not say things like we don't have it.We do, but we need to exercise it and grow in faith and grow in hope and charity.
38:15Help us to do that, Lord, this week.In those areas of our life that we feel like we're lacking, whether it's goodness orpatience or kindness or self-control, Lord, we make it a point.to focus on each one and make sure that they are rooted,that self-control is rooted in love.It's rooted in hope.It's rooted in faith and gentleness and kindness.We pray that the kindness in our life would be rooted in hope and faith and charity.
38:55Lord Jesus, help us to grow in virtue.you we pray in your name amen father son and the holy spirit god bless you went a little over today butit's a lot of fun talking to you i'll tell you what and i really look forward to being with you alreadynext week god bless