Here at St. Peter, our Counseling lessons are based on a "Virtue of the Month". Our goal with this is to bring virtues to life by reminding all students everyday of real life ways they can become closer to God. The hope is this will happen through frequent use and examples of the Virtue. Counseling lessons will be centered around the virtue of the month. A Saint is listed next to each Virtue as a true example of that Virtue. The relationship being that these people became or are in the process of becoming saints by demonstrating the virtues. As Catholics, we strive to become a saint and every moment of every day we have the opportunity to rededicate ourselves to this calling through living out the virtues with the help of Jesus. Listed below are the virtues for each month, and connecting character trait and saint.
August: Temperance/Self-Control Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Temperance- Temperance moderates the attraction of pleasures, assures the mastery of the will over instincts, and provides balance in the use of created goods.
September: Justice/Respect Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Justice- Justice consists in the firm and constant will to give to others their due.
October: Fortitude/Responsibility Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Fortitude- Fortitude assures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of good. It reaches even to the ability of possibly sacrificing one's own life for a just cause.
November: Grace/Polite Bishop Fulton Sheen
Grace- Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God.
December: Charity/Compassion Fr. Emil Kapuan
Charity- Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.
January: Hope/Hardworking Blessed Chiara Badano
Hope- Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire and await from God eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit to merit it and to persevere to the end of our earthly life.
February: Prudence/Honesty Saint John Paul II
Prudence- Prudence gives reason to discern in every circumstance our true good and to choose the right means for achieving it. Prudence guides the other virtues by pointing out their rule and measure.
March: Prudence/Trustworthy Blessed John Henry Newman
April: Faith/Accountable Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Faith- Faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and all that he has revealed to us and that the Church proposes for our belief because God is Truth itself. By faith the human person freely commits himself to God.
May: Faith/Forgiving Saint John Paul II
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