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Fortitude


My dear brethren,
Today St Paul exhorts us to ¡°put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience: bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also¡± (Col. 3:12-13 ¡°).


How could we practice these virtues, that make us Christ-like, unless we would suffer from our neighbour some offenses that we would have to bear patiently and forgive? Hence in the Gospel our Lord Jesus Christ tells us that in His field – the Church – there is some cockle, bad weeds, until the end of the world – harvest time – when He will give orders to His angels to separate them. Until then their presence give us occasion to practice patience, perseverance and forgiveness!


Thus God draws good out of evil. St Augustine tells us: ¡°Think not that wicked men are in this world for nothing, or that God doth no good with them. Every wicked man liveth, either to repent, or to exercise the righteous¡± (In ps. 54, 4). When the ungodly repents – by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ – his conversion gives great glory to God; but even if he does not, his presence is an occasion for the good to practice patience and forgiveness. In Heaven, there will be no longer any suffering to bear patiently, nor any offense to forgive: such virtues can only be practiced here below.


Yet they are great virtues that make us truly Christ-like, God-like: ¡°Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful¡± (Lk. 6:36) ¡°But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust. For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this? And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this? Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect¡± (Mt. 5:44-48)


Now these virtues require a great fortitude, spiritual strength. St Thomas Aquinas teaches that fortitude is one of the four cardinal virtues, thus very important for the spiritual life. He explains that a virtue is a habit that makes a man good by inclining him to good actions: ¡°now man's good is to be in accordance with reason. Wherefore it belongs to human virtue to make his work accord with reason. This happens in three ways: first, by rectifying reason itself [avoiding disorderedly and erroneous thoughts], and this is done by the intellectual virtues; secondly, by establishing the rectitude of reason in human affairs, and this belongs to justice; thirdly, by removing the obstacles to the establishment of this rectitude in human affairs. Now the human will is hindered in two ways from following the rectitude of reason.


First, through being drawn by some object of pleasure to something other than what the rectitude of reason requires; and this obstacle is removed by the virtue of temperance. Secondly, through the will being led away from following that which is in accordance with reason, on account of some difficulty that presents itself. In order to remove this obstacle fortitude of the mind is requisite, whereby to resist the aforesaid difficulty even as a man, by fortitude of body, overcomes and removes bodily obstacles.¡± (IIa IIae qu.123 a.1)


There is an enormous difference between the virtue of fortitude and violence: fortitude is strength in the service of good; it is moral strength much more than physical strength. Thus a young girl as St Agnes could have the fortitude to suffer martyrdom rather than deny Christ! This virtue makes us persevere in good in spite of dangers, threats, difficulties of all kinds.


The greatest danger is the danger of death: thus the main act of the virtue of fortitude is martyrdom! And the early Church gave us many marvellous examples of martyrs – but even today the Catholic Faith is persecuted in some countries, including China, and there are still martyrs. The Church honours the martyrs, and teaches that they receive a special crown in Heaven for the excellence of their fortitude.


St Thomas teaches that there are two acts of the virtue of fortitude: to attack and to endure, and the main act is to endure. It is more difficult to endure patiently than to make a quick attack. The martyrs give the supreme example of endurance. Not to render evil for evil, but to overcome evil by good!


Now virtue consists in the right measure: there can be excesses in attacking or enduring: the Gospel gives an example: when Our Lord was going to Jerusalem, he went through Samaria and one city refused to receive Him; ¡°and when his disciples James and John had seen this, they said: Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them? And turning, he rebuked them, saying: You know not of what spirit you are. The Son of man came not to destroy souls, but to save. And they went into another town¡± (Lk. 9:54-56)


Moderation is essential to virtue.

One aspect of fortitude is ¡°longanimity¡±, perseverance through time. To bear with difficulties one day is not too difficult; to bear them for a long time becomes much more difficult: this requires the special virtue of perseverance, to which the Heavenly reward is promised: ¡°he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved¡± (Mt. 10:22).


To do that, we need to rely not on our human strength, but on the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¡°I can do all these things in him who strengtheneth me¡± (Phil. 4:13) . Christ said to St Paul: ¡°My grace is sufficient for thee; for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful¡± (2 Cor. 12:9-10)


Thus this moral strength is a fruit of prayer, by which we obtain the grace of Christ. He who relies on his own strength will quickly fall into many kinds of vices: violence, pride, obstinacy, stubbornness, self-will, bitter zeal, etc. At my very first encounter with Archbishop Lefebvre, in Feb. 1977, at a time when newspapers were speaking of the ¡°steel bishop¡±, what struck me was his meekness; and when I reported this to my confessor, he said: ¡°he is meek, therefore he is strong [=the true virtue of fortitude]; because he relies not on his own personal strength, but on that of our Lord Jesus Christ; he defends not his own personal ideas, but the teaching of Christ.¡± In this crisis of the Church there is indeed need of fortitude, especially to bear with its duration, and the unjust criticisms directed to those who want to remain faithful to what the Church has always done. But we should ¡°not render evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but rather a blessing:¡± (1 Pet. 3:9) 

 
We see this virtue of fortitude in the Blessed Virgin Mary standing at the foot of the Cross, Queen of Martyrs: when even Peter had feared and denied Christ, when all the other apostles had run away, she did not fear to bear the opprobrium and pains of Christ; she was standing near Him, sharing in His Passion to the full – and the only faithful apostle is the one who had followed her, St John.


Let us ask her to obtain that virtue for us, to have the courage to remain faithful in spite of the difficulties; let us ask especially for persevering in good until our death, so that we may receive the crown of glory. Amen.


Fr. F. Laisney