Lesson Four in Principles of the Moral Life, with Fr Gregory Pine, OP, BA, STL, Assistant Director for Campus Outreach at the Thomistic Institute.
As the Psalmist sings, "My heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God." Rather than disturbances of the soul, the passions are the building blocks of love and the energy which motivate human flourishing. The question is not whether they are good or bad, but rather whether they are formed well or ill.
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