Disintegration
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| A child participates in the family life of its human parents, who procreated it through their mutual self-donating love; similarly the child born from above through the Sacrament of Baptism participates in the Life of its Divine Parent, God. |
| A child's behavior can be controlled either externally, by punishment
or reward or internally by love or hate. When the family love relationship no longer controls the
moral behavior of the child, its relationship in the family and its personality
can be said to have become disintegrated (divided); colloquially the child
has confused its true needs with its wants. |
| Effects of Disintegration - Adam’s sin resulted in the loss of the preternatural Gift of Integrity which was a consequence of our human participation in the Life of the Trinity. |
| That loss of the Gift of Integrity affected both body and soul: |
| Body – the effects of Original Sin caused a loss of corporeal
gifts that cannot be restored in this life. |
| Sensibility to suffering |
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| Mortality |
| Soul – |
the effects of Original Sin caused a loss of spiritual gifts
that resulted in WIRD vices opposite the four |
Weakened will
- weakening of the power to choose the good. (opposite of the virtue
of justice). |
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| Ignorance - difficulty in knowing the truth. (opposite of the virtue of Prudence) | |
| Recoiling before difficulties in the struggle for the good (opposite of the virtue of Fortitude). | |
| Desire for sensual satisfaction against the judgment of reason (opposite of the virtue of Temperance). |
An example
of a disintegrated (divided) human personality exhibiting: |
a Weakened will,
Ignorance, Recoiling before difficulties, and a Desire for sensual
satisfaction.... |
"Make
me chaste, O Lord...., but not yet." |
St. Augustine |
| The human will is "vicious, sensual, and ungrateful." (St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila) |
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