Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. The parts of prudence are certain faculties,perfections, or qualities that belong to prudence, or are somehowassociated with it. Among these things, some seem to be almost anelement of prudence itself; these are called itsquasi-integral parts. There are eight of thesequasi-integral parts of prudence: memory, understanding, docility,shrewdness, reason, foresight, circumspection, caution. Other partsof prudence are called its subjective parts; these are itsspecies or kinds of varieties, as, for example, domestic prudence,reigning prudence,military prudence, political prudence, etc.Still other parts of prudence are called its potentialparts; these are virtues connected with prudence, or subordinate toprudence, which produce what can be called its secondary effects;these are: good counsel, which throws a kind of headlight; synesis,which guides judgment in ordinary matters; and gnome, which guidesjudgment in exceptional matters.
"The one thing necessary which Jesus spoke of to Martha and Mary consists in hearing the word of God and living by it."
R. Garrigou-Lagrange, OP
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"Before a man chooses his confessor, he ought to think well about it, and pray about it also; but when he has once chosen, he ought not to change, except for most urgent reasons, but put the utmost confidence in his director."
St Philip Neri
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"Spiritual persons ought to be equally ready to experience sweetness and consolation in the things of God, or to suffer and keep their ground in drynesses of spirit and devotion, and for as long as God pleases, without their making any complaint about it."
St Philip Neri
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