Workshop 4
Virtue and Happiness
Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. – Director of the Thomistic Institute
WEEK 9
1. Virtue and Happiness
Objective: Educators will understand the importance of true values and virtues.
• Virtues are strengths.
• Where lasting happiness is found.
• Morality is a type of virtue.
WORKSHOP 4 OUTPUT
Workshop to be completed by participants outside of the formation setting. 80% of all worksheets and outputs are necessary for completion of program.
“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.” ― Pope John Paul II
Write a short reflection on how you have looked for happiness in the past and how you plan to live in the future in order to find lasting happiness.