Fruits of the Holy Spirit: Living a Happy Life (Deeper Christianity) by Stratford Caldecott

Author:Stratford Caldecott [Caldecott, Stratford]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Catholic Truth Society
Published: 2017-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

This is extremely useful, because each of Bonaventure’s four categories gives us a description of one of the cardinal virtues, and also furnishes some clues about the fruits to be expected from each when it is “supernaturalized” by the Holy Spirit.

According to Bonaventure, Prudence, the first of the cardinal virtues, is the habitual cleaving to God, whose nature is Wisdom and the enjoyment of whom leads to love, joy, and peace. Justice, the second virtue, is about loving my neighbour in God. Fortitude, the third cardinal virtue, is about loving myself in God, for (as Bonaventure says) “I cleave to my soul when I possess it,” and “I possess [my soul] when I can face adversity with patience. But the patient toleration of adversity must not be casual, nor result from mere chance: it must come from an inner vision of mercy.”12

Finally, the fourth virtue, Temperance, is about loving my body in God, so that I keep clean and pure: “This I do when I remain moderate in the use of taste, continent in the use of touch, and chaste in all the senses.”13

We can therefore lay out a picture of the virtues and fruits in the form of a table like this:

Cardinal Virtue

Theological Virtue

Fruit of the Holy Spirit

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