Acquired and Infused Virtues

Jan 6, 2022

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Acquired and Infused Virtues: What are they? Did Christ have them? How do you grow in them?

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Beginner – avoiding sin and preserving the gift of charity.
Proficient – Strengthen charity by steadily advancing in greater works
Perfect – Whose exercise of charity is directed at uion with and enjoyment of God

The strengthening of a habit enables one to perform greater acts in accordance with that virtue the 1. Promptness 2. Pleasure 3. Ease. Acquired virtues are both generated and increased by gradual strengthening of reason’s imprint on the appetitive powers through human acts, but “our acts are not the active causes of the increase of charity and the other infused virtues,” just as our actions are not the active causes of infused virtues’ coming to be in the first place. The increase of the infused virtues is due to God’s action, just as their initial infusion is God’s gift.

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