Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. Injustice is a special vice for it opposes the specialvirtue of justice. It has, however, the aspect of a general viceinasmuch as every vice strikes against the common good whichjustice serves.
2. A person may do an unjust thing-from ignorance,perhaps, or passion-without having the habit or vice ofinjustice. But to do what is unjust intentionally and by fullchoice is the mark of an unjust man, a man with the vice ofinjustice.
3. Injustice is found only in what is suffered againstone's will.
4. In its general essential kind, or genus,injustice is a grave sin. In small matters, however, it is a venialsin; slight acts are not in essential conflict with the good, andwith the fixed will, of the one who undergoes their effect orendures them.
"God gives us some things, as the beginning of faith, even when we do not pray. Other things, such as perseverance, he has only provided for those who pray."
St Augustine
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"When the devil has failed in making a man fall, he puts forward all his energies to create distrust between the penitent and the confessor, and so by little and little he gains his end at last."
St Philip Neri
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"The name of Jesus, pronounced with reverence and affection, has a kind of power to soften the heart. "
St Philip Neri
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