A Topic of Moral Theology

Patience

Patience and impatience.

The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

Within this topic

Stolidity and Impatience

Also asked about as…

being patient · impatience (ed.)

In the index as Patience · PATIENCE in general · Impatience · TEMPTATIONS, how the devil tempts and leads away pious persons · EXAMPLE: we should profit by the good example and give it to others · Fortitude · Sufferings and trials and divine providence · CHASTITY, means to preserve it · CONFESSOR: need and choice of a director · DEATH: one dies more confidently in religion · Insensibility · Longanimity · Magnanimity · Magnificence · Meekness · PRAYER, its necessity · Peace of soul · Perseverance · Timidity · Ambition · Anger · Boldness · CROSSES, inevitable in this life, and are for our own good · Charity

Further reading Why God Tries His Saints with Tribulation — on Genesis 33 ↗ · Three Ways God Tests Us — on Deuteronomy 13 ↗ — Cornelius a Lapide, The Great Commentary, read off-site at lapide.org (public-domain translation) (ed.)

In the manuals

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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 3 passages

Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. III, Diss. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. II, Art. III, § II, Point III. On Patience, nn. 426, 427 & 428 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

John A. McHugh, O.P., and Charles J. Callan, O.P. — 6 passages

Vol. I, Pt. I, Q. II, Art. 2. Good Habits, or Vi…, Complements of the Virtues, n. 163 — There are twelve Fruits of the Holy Ghost enumerated by St. Paul (Gal. v, 22-23). (a) Some of these acts grow out of the indwelling Spirit, and are delightful to the spiritual taste because they perfect the agent in hims… Read in context →

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 7. The Virtue of Fort…, The Parts of Fortitude, n. 2447 — The Parts of Fortitude. The Parts of Fortitude.—As has been said above, the parts of a virtue are subjective, integral and potential (see 1635, 1636). (a) Fortitude has no subjective parts, for it is concerned with a very specialized matter, na… Read in context →

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 7. The Virtue of Fort…, Patience, nn. 2453 & 2454 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 7. The Virtue of Fort…, Stolidity and Impatience, n. 2455 — The Vices Opposed to Patience. The Vices Opposed to Patience.—(a) The sin of deficiency in sorrow is stolidity, which is a brutal insensibility that is moved neither by one’s own nor by others’ misfortunes. This is not a virtue, but an inhuman and unn… Read in context →

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 7. The Virtue of Fort…, Steadfastness, Effeminacy and Pertinacity, n. 2456 — Steadfastness. Steadfastness.—Steadfastness is a virtue which is so devoted to the goodness of continuing in the right that it is not fatigued by the length of time or the repeated effort required for a good work (virtue of persistence… Read in context →

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J.

Vol. I, On Sins and Virtues, VI. On Virtues, n. 348 — What is fortitude, what are its parts, and what vices are opposed to it? - R. To the first. Fortitude is the virtue which moderates and strengthens the soul against grave dangers, especially of death. - No precept per se… Read in context →

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Adolphe Tanquerey, S.S.

Vol. II, On the Moral Virtues, n. 1070 — 1070. 3. Patience is the virtue which so moderates sadness arising from present evils that, because of it, the will is not moved away from good, but rather is confirmed in it. Therefore this is not insensibility, or apat… Read in context →

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P. — 5 passages

Vol. II, Tr. XII, Ch. III, § 3. On Patience, nn. 633, 634, 635 & 636 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Tr. XII, Chapter IV. On the Vices Opposed Both to Fortitude and to the Annexed Virtues, n. 641 — 641. 4. Two vices are opposed to patience, one by defect and the other by excess. By defect there is opposed insensibility or hardness, namely, when someone is touched in no way by any evils, whether his own or another's… Read in context →