virtue: definition: ccc

Re: Virtue, Definition
Fr: The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994)

Virtue = “a habitual and firm disposition to do the good …. [and] to give the best of himself …. with all his sensory and spiritual powers,” pursuing it and choosing it in concrete acts.

Human Virtues = “are firm attitudes, stable dispositions, habitual perfections of intellect and will that
-- govern our actions,
-- order our passions and
-- guide our conduct
according to reason and faith.”
Consequently, “they make possible
-- ease,
-- self-mastery, and
-- joy
in leading a morally good life. (# 1804)

Moral Virtues = are the fruit and seed of morally good acts acquired by human effort that dispose all the powers of the human being for communion with divine love (# 1804).