Speaker 1
So we don't become angelsas angels are human being. Angels are e angels of angels. Human beings are human beings. But human beings are men to be graced. Ccoding to thomas, in christ, jesus and brought into the inner life of the blessed trinity. Tetnoe toterty pars. So thomas then looked a e human being, as we must io morality. And thomas's morality is what wed think about immorality, about keeping rules and regulationsi often say about it, thomas, morality is not how far you coul put your hand on the girl's knee without commitin it. That's anote. Lot of people thing desperate moralitys about, right? Thomas is tate beness that question, how can you be purse? How does it mean to grow in a good person? I remember somebody said to me one day, he said, you know that he was homosexual. I said, right. And he said to me about the charc from the rules and regulations. I sang, im in, how can you grow to be a virtuous purso what does it mean for you to be virtuouus, to be honest, to be just, to be courageous, to be prudet, to be temperate, o theotherfore moral virtues of aristotle let alone. Now, how do you grow in faith, hope and love, which is the theological virtues that come to us directly from god at the moment of baptism? Sose talking of the question, and very often wen cut up in therene question, how can i, as brot in, on ever human being? Howecome, whereis my sin? O forget atinin. How can you grow sch how can you become more human? To live virtuously? That's ole thomas's moral theology. And i think its that we have been ruined in the gacacars by not having enough dominit in moral theologians, ecause we look at things different because enough our moral theology is, how'd you get us out of trouble es and begins with sin. Thomas doesn't begin with sin. Thomas begins with god and creation and the gos of gres. And then we have to deal with the person and what i means to be a human person who grows in in grows in virtue and grows alteten in the theological virtues. N thomas brings in different ideas. Frine. He looks at the moral virtue of corage. Now, for aristotle, what will be the most courageous thing you could do? Exactly, join the army and fight, right? Thomas says, that's all car as far as it goes. But you can also be courageous in dying. Of course, he has the thought of christ, no greater love can a man at than to lay down his life for his friends. That you can a courageous not by fighting. So you take someone like maximilian colbe. Was he courageous to stand out there, e now sfits, and to give his life? A thomasstat an act of courage. Whereas aristotle been actocuptus, so that the christian gospel, in grace, has something else bring to the virtues, but their human virtues, first and foremost.