🆃🅷🅴 🅷🆄🅼🅽/🅲🆁🅳🅸🅽🅻 🆅🅸🆁🆃🆄🅴🆂The Human Virtues are called such because they are achiev…

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The Human Virtues are called such because they are achieved through our own human will and effort and because they order our relationship to our neighbor in love. They are called Cardinal Virtues because they are fundamental and the foundation on which all other virtues stand. When we practice these four virtues, we engage our intellect, faith, and will to achieve control over our passions and increase our selfmastery. Doing so will help us to lead moral lives that allow us to lovingly exist in union with everyone around us, while giving honor to God’s will for our lives. These four virtues are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what would be the correct action in any given situation. In order to prevent an impulsive decision, a prudent person will take the time to consider all possible options and their outcomes. In addition, he or she will pray for guidance and seek counsel from others while carefully weighing the guidance. We must be careful because our fallen human nature makes us likely to justify our actions incorrectly, convincing ourselves that, even after very careful discernment, we are choosing what is right, when in fact, we are not. Jesus knew our human nature would make prudence difficult for us and, in His divine wisdom, left us the Church as our guide. For this reason, we must read and study Scripture in conjunction with the Magisterium, which is the teaching office of the Church. Doing so will help us to form our conscience according to God’s will, enabling our prudent discernment to become more reliable.