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The virtue this week is MODESTY. The strength to be moderate and in control of ourselves with regard to speech, dress and food.

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To live the virtue of modesty requires a conscious effort in the following areas:
• Our actions and behavior which includes manner of dress, walking, gesturing and how we treat others.
• Our interior thoughts and imagination requiring custody of the eyes and our thoughts and memories -
practicing self-control in what we view - and a guarding of the other senses.
• Our manner of speaking … tone of voice, the words we use and how we communicate.

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church

#2521 Purity requires modesty, an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center
of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to
whose sensitivity it bears witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in
conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity.

#2522 Modesty protects the mystery of persons and their love. It encourages patience and moderation in loving relationships; it requires that the conditions for the definitive giving and commitment of man and woman to one another be fulfilled. Modesty is decency. It inspires one's choice of clothing. It keeps silence or reserve where there is evident risk of unhealthy curiosity. It is discreet.
 

#2523 There is a modesty of the feelings as well as of the body. It protests, for example, against the voyeuristic explorations of the human body in certain advertisements, or against the solicitations of certain media that go too far in the exhibition of intimate things. Modesty inspires a way of life which makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of prevailing ideologies.

#2524 The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. It is born with the awakening consciousness of being a subject. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect forthe human person.
 

The vice is IMMODESTY. The weakness to lack self-control and decency with regard to speech, dress and food.

“Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.”
- St. Ignatius Loyola

In Christ's Peace
Daniel Minter
President 
Assumption Catholic Schools
715.422.0902

Mission- to inspire excellence and personal growth grounded in Catholic principles and tradition
Vision - a community of academic excellence Catholic in spirit and culture, nurturing integrity and respect.