web02.fireside.fm Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:04:35 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Luke 10:41 - Episodes Tagged with “Virtue” https://frwill.fireside.fm/tags/virtue Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:00:00 -0600 Fr. Will is a Priest of the Diocese of Austin, TX - He sometimes blogs at. https://luke1041.com/ en episodic Homilies and talks by Fr. Will Rooney and other guests. Fr. William Rooney Fr. Will is a Priest of the Diocese of Austin, TX - He sometimes blogs at. https://luke1041.com/ no Fr. William Rooney williamlrooney@gmail.com That they may have life | Part 1 - Foundations | What does it really mean to live a good life? https://frwill.fireside.fm/2026-01-15 4743c775-a02b-4e32-b4b2-965f20a9d692 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:00:00 -0600 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney In the first session of That They May Have Life, we explore the foundations of Christian morality: what every human person is made for, where true happiness is found, and how freedom, conscience, and grace shape our moral lives. Far from being a list of rules, Christian morality is an invitation to share in the very life of Christ, who came so that we might have life in abundance 1:00:59 no Powerpoint is availible here (https://austindiocese-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/fr-william-rooney_austindiocese_org/IQD3PPeOVfWvQKPeKyohI1YtASR3LOI99WlSvQenllMuyMA) Catholic, faith, adult faith formation, Powerpoint is availible here

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]]> Love is a Skill | Homily for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time | Fr. Will Rooney https://frwill.fireside.fm/2023-10-29 5fadd0be-0133-497f-97b2-baa7e4d80016 Sun, 29 Oct 2023 07:30:00 -0500 Fr. William Rooney full 3 Fr. William Rooney We are born with the potential to love; but we are made for a deeply personal love! Love is not simply an emotion; but rather is a skill we can develop. Jesus challenges us to do that, and his Death and Resurrection make it possible! 14:29 no St. John Paul II said "Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it. This, as has already been said, is why Christ the Redeemer "fully reveals man to himself"." Read more St. John Paul II's Redemptor Hominis here (https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_04031979_redemptor-hominis.html) Catholic, faith, mass, virtue St. John Paul II said "Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it. This, as has already been said, is why Christ the Redeemer "fully reveals man to himself"." Read more St. John Paul II's Redemptor Hominis here

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]]> Prudence (Cardinal Virtues Series) https://frwill.fireside.fm/2021-01-17-prudence 03768c42-c405-4a9f-b41b-f31d5cbbf498 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:00:00 -0600 Fr. William Rooney full 2 Fr. William Rooney What is Virtue? What is Prudence and Why Does it Matter? 1:00:28 no Catholic, faith, virtue, cardinal, prudence Prudent Generosity https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-11-08 427df88d-991e-458e-8796-e0e86b78afb6 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 21:00:00 -0600 Fr. William Rooney full 2 Fr. William Rooney Everyone wants to be generous, but many times we fail to act generously. How do we decide how to be generous? We need prudence to be able to make decisions about the best way to be generous. Prudence is the virtue directed towards choosing the means towards happiness. But here’s the thing: for us as Christians, prudence must consider an eternal perspective. We are not made for merely natural flourishing, but eternity with heaven. In the end, all the material things will fall away. The material has a place, but it is not everything. In the end, the material things, even honor, prestige, and all the things we fear losing in this world will evaporate. The things will not matter in themselves but only how we used them or failed to use them in service to their more excellent end – charity towards God and our neighbor. In the twilight of our lives, says St. John of the Cross, we will be judged by our love 15:26 no Catholic, faith, mass, OF, A, 32, prudent, virtue Excess and Defect 2020 #6 - Untamed Virtue (Anger) https://frwill.fireside.fm/excess-and-defect-06-anger 83a5ef34-c05f-487a-a5e0-7f5a3abfe561 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 05:00:00 -0500 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney In this episode, first, we get angry at technology(!) and then talk about the vice of wrath...and how to distinguish it from righteous anger, as we had at technology. 46:17 no charity, christ, defect, excess, excess and defect 2020, lent, wrath, anger, vice, virtue Excess and Defect 2020 #5 - All that glitters is not gold (Avarice) https://frwill.fireside.fm/excess-and-defect-05-avarice 9f89c550-9dca-4a4c-a937-93f249560be2 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 05:00:00 -0500 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney Why we need virtue more than ever in this hour. How to overcome the vice of avarice - a disordered love of money. 43:26 no charity, christ, defect, excess, excess and defect 2020, lent, avarice, vice, virtue Excess and Defect 2020 #4 - Vice Potato (Sloth) https://frwill.fireside.fm/excess-and-defect-04-sloth d76b84b4-0084-4d7f-9a7d-cd3bb962a6f6 Thu, 19 Mar 2020 05:00:00 -0500 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney We talk about how the vice of sloth resists the demands which having a loving relationship with God places upon us and how sticking to charity can eliminate it from our lives! 43:14 no Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper (https://www.amazon.com/Leisure-Basis-Culture-Josef-Pieper/dp/1586172565/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. (https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2) charity, christ, defect, excess, excess and defect 2020, lent, sloth, vice, virtue Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung.

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An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung.

]]> Excess and Defect 2020 #3 - This Episode is Better than Every Other Episode (Vainglory) https://frwill.fireside.fm/excess-and-defect-03-vainglory a782e68c-ad20-4f67-8fb3-45c11a5439c9 Thu, 12 Mar 2020 05:00:00 -0500 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney What is glory? What kind of glory is vain? How can we become truly magnanimous - great-souled - instead of seeking honor? 34:13 no An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr12?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2) charity, christ, defect, excess, excess and defect 2020, lent, vainglory, vice, virtue An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2)

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]]> Excess and Defect 2020 #2 - Vice Grips (Envy) https://frwill.fireside.fm/excess-and-defect-02-envy d844396c-06a7-4fa9-a165-5d0e83fb9487 Thu, 05 Mar 2020 05:00:00 -0600 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney In this episode, we discuss the "diabolical" vice of envy. Envy is sorrow at another's good. 37:21 no An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr12?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2) charity, christ, defect, excess, excess and defect 2020, lent, envy, vice, virtue,gratitude An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2)

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]]> Excess and Defect 2020 #1 - Vice Precedence (Pride) https://frwill.fireside.fm/excess-and-defect-01-pride 1aeaaa8f-2614-4e36-ac70-017d79190d4c Thu, 27 Feb 2020 07:00:00 -0600 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney In this first episode of our Lenten series on the vices we talk about virtue and vice in general, how Christ is the model of virtue, and how pride is the root of all the vices in our lives. 34:35 no In this first episode of our Lenten series on the vices we talk about virtue and vice in general, how Christ is the model of virtue, and how pride is the root of all the vices in our lives. An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr12?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2) Lent, vice, virtue, pride, excess, defect, freedom, charity In this first episode of our Lenten series on the vices we talk about virtue and vice in general, how Christ is the model of virtue, and how pride is the root of all the vices in our lives.

An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2)

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An excellent intorduction to the Seven Capital Vices is [Glittering Vices by Rebecca DeYoung. ]((https://www.amazon.com/Glittering-Vices-Seven-Deadly-Remedies/dp/1587432323/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FB7EYUZUU7P5&keywords=glittering+vices&qid=1584046883&s=books&sprefix=glittering+%2Caps%2C340&sr=1-2)

]]> Virtue, vice, and the call to perfect flourishing https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-02-23 8aeacae9-1cf7-4033-91ba-cd1fe9d28e77 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:00:00 -0600 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney God calls you and me to flourish with him supernaturally. He calls us to become like him and gives us the grace to make it happen. But he wants us to cooperate and respond to this grace in freedom. How will we respond to his gift of grace. 17:32 no homily, saint, virtue, vice, flourishing, holiness, perfection, conversion Identity, Envy, and Excellence https://frwill.fireside.fm/2020-01-26-eng 6fad6ff8-dc20-4ce3-8782-3031a2f75c69 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:00:00 -0600 Fr. William Rooney full Fr. William Rooney Jesus calls us to find our deepest identity from our relationship with Him, rather than in comparison with others which leads to envy. 18:31 no virtue, A-OT-3, envy, jealousy, competition, cooperation, rivalry, homily