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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:27px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="2">Friends, in
today’s Gospel, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">Jesus recognizes the prudence of the ten wise virgins</span></b>.
<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">In the Middle Ages, prudence was called “the queen of the virtues,”
because it enabled<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> one</span> to do the right thing <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">in a particular situation.
</span>Prudence is a feel for <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the moral situation</span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">,</span></b> something like the feel that
a quarterback has for the playing field or a politician has for the
voters in his district.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:27px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="2"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Wisdom
is, like prudence, a kind of vision, but it is, unlike prudence, a
sense of the big picture</span></b>.<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> It is the capacity to survey reality from the
vantage point of God</span></b>, appreciating the grandest perspective. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Without
</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">wisdom, even the most prudent judgment</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">will be erroneous, short-sighted,
and inadequate.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:27px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="2"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">The
combination, therefore, of prudence and wisdom is especially powerful.
Someone who is both wise and prudent will have both a sense of the big
picture and a feel for <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the particular situation. <br></span></span></b></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:27px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="2"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><br></span></span></b></font></p>
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