Hi Friends! In Class 3, we covered the "bare essentials," or Precepts of the Church and the Cardinal Virtues. See the materials and notes below. Remember that the Bishop may ask the confirmandi the define these at your confirmation. I know that you will be ready to answer his questions! Excited to see you next week when we will talk about living the Life.

The Precepts are:

1. Attend Mass weekly on Sundays and observe the Sabbath by resting and reflecting on the Lord's gifts.

2. Confess your sins to a priest once per year.

3. Receive our Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist in the state of grace at least once per year during Easter.

4. Observe days of fasting and abstinence.

5. Contribute to the support of the Church.

The Cardinal Virtues are:

1. Prudence: "an intellectual habit enabling us to see in any given juncture of human affairs what is virtuous and what is not, and how to come at the one and avoid the other. It is to be observed that prudence, whilst possessing in some sort an empire over all the moral virtues, itself aims to perfect not the will but the intellect in its practical decisions."

2. Justice: "is a moral quality or habit which perfects the will and inclines it to render to each and to all what belongs to them."

3. Fortitude: "that which braves the greatest dangers and therefore that which meets the risk of life in battle.

4. Temperance: "It may be defined as the righteous habit which makes a man govern his natural appetite for pleasures of the senses in accordance with the norm prescribed by reason."