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Perseverance is more than willpower — it’s a virtue that keeps you holding on to good goals when things get hard. In this episode, we explore two vices that oppose perseverance: effeminacy (softness, indulgence, avoiding hardship) and pertinacity (stubbornness, headstrong rigidity). We also unpack practical ways to remove the obstacles in your soul — voluntary deprivation, penance, and mortification — so that perseverance can take root and flourish.

Notes:

Notes:

Summa Theologica. Part 2 of 2, Question 138. Article 1. Whether effeminacy is opposed to perseverance?

Summa Theologica. Part 2 of 2, Question 138. Article 2. Whether pertinacity is opposed to perseverance?

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