In our Catholic boards, we focus on virtues to reflect the values and teachings of Jesus Christ. We celebrate a different virtue each month that resonates both with our Catholic tradition and with the Municipality of York’s character attributes. In May we reflect on the virtue of Responsibility.
This month, we celebrate the virtues of reverence and respect. Reverence refers to the proper attitude we should have toward God. Respect means to see the other person with new eyes. Reverence asks us not only to respect one another, but also to have reverence for the sacred part of one another, for all of God’s creations and God.
I will honour
... Continue reading "April Virtue: Reverence and Respect"This month we celebrate the virtue of hope, one of the theological virtues listed in 1 Corinthians 13. Hope is very much a spiritual virtue. Hope is the theological virtue by which we place our trust in Christ’s promises and rely not on our own strength alone, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. Hope is strongly associated
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