Each of the other virtues, especially Prudence and Temperance enable all of us who have gained inner peace and are persistent in retaining it, to show how this inner peace affects us and others.

We all want to be at peace with ourselves. This is what it means to live happily. The Beatitudes that Jesus proclaimed respond to this desire. When we feel and act that "Blessed are the poor in spirit,…those who mourn,…the meek,…those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,…the merciful,…the pure of heart,…and the peacemakers."3

When we can rejoice and be glad, even when reviled and persecuted, and we are then really showing that we are called from death in every form by The Light, Jesus Christ, He becomes the source of our inner peace, the harmonizer, for he is peace itself!

Endnotes

1 p. 107, Liturgy of the Hours, vol. 4. Catholic Book Publishing Co., N.Y., 1975.

2 Peter A. Campbell and Edwin M. McMahon, Bio Spirituality (Chicago, Illinois: Lyola University Press, 1985), p.6. This and subsequent references for this work are reprinted by permission of the Publisher, Lyola University Press. Author note: I was taught "focusing" using the 1985 edition. There is a second (1997) edition that has an expanded Foreword and Preface. Chapter titles are the same but there are two new appendices.

3 Matthew 5: 3-12, pp. 1014 – 1015, The New American Bible, Catholic World Press, 1987.

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