Homily Notes: 12-12-21 - Gaudete Sunday
December 12th, 2021. Gaudete Sunday What is joy? Joy is achieving what is good. Winning a race you trained hard for. Getting a job you worked hard to get. Joy is the attainment of a good thing, something that you worked hard to achieve. This is different from mere sensory pleasure, which is gratification of the senses and faculties. What leads to joy? — virtue. Virtue is necessary for the pursuit of happiness: 1. Modesty. — An absolutely essential virtue to being happy because modesty moderates the senses. Paul says to us today, “let your modesty be known.” Through modesty, we mortify the senses by controlling them. If we constantly gratify our senses, letting them have whatever they want, then we are seeking pleasure as an end ...