Risingby Chris Duvall, RScP Faith, hope, love are the primary building blocks out of which all other virtues flow. A virtue is not just a positive quality. It is an active ingredient: something like yeast in the dough that causes an alchemical transformation to take place. Virtues have capacity to act, potency. When faith, hope, and love are put into the dough of the material world, they literally cause it to rise. Through the use of these virtues, …