First Reading:
1 Kings 19: 9, 11-13
Second Reading:
Rom 9: 1-5
GOSPEL Reading:
Matt 14: 22-33

Virtue is the habit of doing good; it is the source of good acts. Vice is the opposite of virtue, the habit of doing bad or evil. AMong the virtues are faith, hope and charity; the opposite are called vices, the sources of sin. Gluttony, immorality, greed are the most common. The two cannot exist together. One who has virtues has no vices; they are exclusive. Virtues sanctify the person and all his actions; you become holy and all your actions are holy acts. Vices corrupt a person's soul and everything he does. A person who has vice is an evil person, and talks evil, and his actions are evil. It's the vice that is evil - gluttony, greed, because they contaminate all the actions, appearing therefore in the actions. If suddenly this person dies, it is impossible for him to go to heaven. But one who has a virtue and is sanctified by this virtue and all his actions, he will go to heaven.