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Prudence has been defined as the right reason in action . If you are ill or injured but able to attend ( i.e. not contagious ) , you may still be counted as present if you attend class and record observations to hand in at the end of the class period . What is disturbing is that both dimensions seem to be given an equal share and it would seem that he has neglected to say that the vertical dimension has a certain priority since the Mass is first and foremost the worship of God , not a celebration of self or its extension , the community , even though clothed somewhat in different cultural conditions of music , words and gestures . Psychologists , who associate their study with an investigation of the human soul , often do not believe in the existence of a soul . It summons the person to renounce an ethic of self-interest for the bracing ethic of virtue . Ironically , students with grants from foreign governments can study in Catholic schools , grants that our own government would not give to native Catholic students in Catholic universities . If some of the more extreme of the New Agers likewise look upon blood as valuable , let us look on them as misguided , but at least as having recognized that reality is richer than the dreary world of atheistic secularism or Deism . Therefore , whatever a man does that gives glory to God , or that submits his mind to God , and his body , too , by tempering its lusts , is without excess ( in worship ) so long as it be in harmony with the law of God , the rules of the Church , and the customs of those with whom he lives ( ST II-II 93 , 2 ) . In the most recent period , even in Catholic colleges and universities , the discussion of moral problems has moved away from both these positions of Catholic theologians . His previous experiences in the secular world as a banker and married man have helped him immeasurably to administrate his parish efficiently and to provide wise counseling to married couples who are having problems with their marriage .