I have a project due for school on the virtues of the Catholic faith and I was wondering if anyone knows any symbols of fortitude [courage] and temperance?
2007-03-19 09:01:51 · 6 answers · asked by мσℓℓιє 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-03-19 09:05:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Symbols Of Fortitude
2016-12-16 08:30:35 · answer #2 · answered by unck 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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This is a fun question. Let's see, first, prudence. Practical wisdom, ability to judge, discernment, choice. The hinge virtue, isn't that what it's called? What do these words call to mind? Maybe a white cloth isn't the best -- prudence doesn't mean purity. It means the ability to weigh competing goods, to distinguish in the moment between good and evil. So some image signifying intelligence, wisdom... maybe an owl? Or a wise man? Fortitude. Strength! Courage! How about a lion? Or a sword? Or a tower? Temperance. That means not giving in to foolish bravado, being careful, understanding one's limits, not indulging in the passions, moderation. Any images come to mind? In the tarot deck, an angel is the image used for the temperance card. But here's something interesting: a quote on the cardinal virtues by St. Augustine: "For these four virtues (would that all felt their influence in their minds as they have their names in their mouths!), I should have no hesitation in defining them: that temperance is love giving itself entirely to that which is loved; fortitude is love readily bearing all things for the sake of the loved object; justice is love serving only the loved object, and therefore ruling rightly; prudence is love distinguishing with sagacity between what hinders it and what helps it." For Augustine, temperance means full-hearted loving -- that is, it means not being distracted from what we truly love by the passions such as lust or gluttony. Maybe the heart could be the symbol of temperance. Finally, justice. I think you have a good symbol with the scales. That's certainly the most common image.
2016-04-08 00:26:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In temperance, we become love bestowing fully and without reserve. We love serving God totally and without corruption as we awaken ever more fully to who we truly are. We maintain a natural balance in a relatively stable state of equilibrium with reality: our thoughts, feelings, emotions as well as people, places, things, and events and our interpretation of each.
In fortitude we love gladly enduring everything for the Beloved, recognizing suffering for what it is. We surrender to physical, emotional, and spiritual sensation as it is rather than resisting the sensation either in fear of loss or gain and hence create pain and suffering, which like beauty, are only mental phenomena that we create.
2007-03-19 09:07:43 · answer #4 · answered by llosier9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For temperance you could use Shadrack, Meeshak and abednigo from the book of Daniel
2007-03-19 09:05:38 · answer #5 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholic symbols? Don't have any... but amethyst is good for temperence in crystal lore.
2007-03-19 09:05:26 · answer #6 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋