Posts Tagged ‘happiness’
The Virtue of Prudence: Making Relationship a Priority
In this series on the Well-Ordered Life, we have taken a look at the challenge most Catholics face finding time to grow in their faith, where the moral virtue of prudence can help us. The reason that being too “busy” is the wrong way to look at time challenges Why we are so overwhelmed and the…
Read MoreStop Trying to Make Church Fun – It’s About Something Much More Important
Brian Holdsworth, YouTube Click here to see the original post on churchpop.com Brian Holdsworth seems to me to be a voice for the Millennial Generation and for Generation Z. In fact, his description of himself on Youtube as “a creative professional and struggling thinker making videos on topics that I find interesting,” seems to fit…
Read MoreAddressing Materialism with Students: Levels of Happiness
The Attraction of Materialism Perhaps one reason that materialism is so attractive to young people is that they tend not to discriminate between levels of goods. In fact, especially in a culture that encourages the sense appetite and discourages the nurture of the intellect and the will, they tend to judge what is good based…
Read MoreMaterialism
Stuck in This World Materialism is the philosophy that reality consists only in the physical and tangible. Materialists seek their ultimate happiness in physical pleasures and possessions. They don’t believe in spiritual goods and they don’t really value human nature. People who embrace materialism often teeter between living life to the fullest and falling into…
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