Diligence: Living virtuously in a work

Diligence: Living virtuously in a work

In a world that insists on defining things by extremes, it can be challenging to identify the true balance we call virtue. Virtue is defined by the Catechism of the Catholic Church as “an habitual and firm disposition to do the good” (No. 1803). The catechism goes on to say that a virtue “allows the person not only to perform good acts, but to give the best of himself. The virtuous person tends toward the good with all his sensory and spiritual …