The Virtue Study · Rising Tide Fellowship

Read it rightly

Stop second-guessing every holy decision

You can read Scripture every day and still feel guilty every time someone's disappointed in you. You can't tell whether you're being patient or being a doormat, and you're tired of asking.

The Catholic differenceSt. Thomas Aquinas teaches that every virtue sits between two vices. This study reads Scripture the way the Church always has, so you can see both sides.
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12 chapters · Study at your own pace · $197

This was built for you if you've ever

Tried harder and only gotten more tired

  • Reapplied the same verse to every situation
  • Called it peace when it was really keeping everyone comfortable
  • Called it surrender when you were abandoning yourself
  • Said yes to every good request and felt crushed by all of them
  • Felt overlooked by God while you carried everyone else
  • Felt guilty the moment someone else was disappointed
The Catholic differenceUsually a real virtue got applied in the wrong direction. The Church has the words to sort it out, and so can you.

Every virtue sits between two vices

Most teaching only warns you about one side

If you're already over-giving, being told to give more is gasoline on a fire. The study shows you both edges, so you can find the virtuous middle for your own temptation.

CowardiceCourageRecklessness
Self-erasureCharityColdness
Self-abandonmentPeaceDomination
The vice of

Pusillanimity

Small-souledness. Shrinking from the gifts God gave you and calling it humility.

The virtue of

Magnanimity

Greatness of soul. Stepping fully into what God is calling you to do.

The vice of

Vainglory

Leading for applause and approval, even when the work itself is good.

The Catholic differenceThese are St. Thomas Aquinas's own categories, faithful to the Magisterium and taught in plain language.

How every chapter works

Five questions that change how you read

Most Bible studies ask what a passage means. This one asks what it means for you, this week.

i.

The virtue

What virtue is this passage really teaching?

ii.

Your lean

Which way do you naturally tip when life gets hard?

iii.

The counterfeit

What does the holy-looking imitation look like for you?

iv.

The virtuous middle

Where does this virtue rightly stand for you?

v.

This week

How will you actually live it, specifically?

The Catholic differenceThis is personal formation of your conscience, the work the Church asks every one of us to do (CCC 1783–1785).

Inside the study

Twelve commonly misread passages

Each chapter takes one passage women often hear used against them and reads it rightly.

  1. How to Stop Feeding Your Default
  2. How to Lead without Losing Heart
  3. How to Lead without Self-Abandoning
  4. Peace Is Not Keeping Everyone Happy
  5. When Every ‘Yes’ Feels Holy
  6. The Shame You Call “Humility”
  7. When Surrender Is Really a Failure of Prudence
  8. When Love Turns into Rescuing
  9. When ‘Obedience’ Buried Your Talent
  10. How to Speak Truth without Becoming Aggressive
  11. When Humility Became a Hiding Place
  12. How to Lead as a Beloved Daughter

What changes

You'll know when you're right, even when it's uncomfortable

  • False guilt stops running your decisions
  • You can tell self-erasure from real holiness
  • You stop applying Scripture to the wrong extreme
  • You know whether you're in the right during conflict
  • Your worth rests on being a beloved daughter, not on performance

“I finally feel confident that I'm doing the right thing when I'm going through something hard. It's uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean it's a sin. I can assess my actions, compare them to the virtue, and actually know when I'm right.”

Virtue Study Graduate

“My whole life I felt guilty every time I stood up for myself or someone else.”

Virtue Study Graduate

“Ohhhh I'm not an impatient mom. I'm kind of a doormat. This completely changes how I show up.”

RTF Member
Two ways in

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On your own

The Virtue Study

$197 one time

  • All 12 chapters, yours to keep
  • Study at your own pace
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Inside the fellowship

Full membership

$34.95 / month

  • The Virtue Study, included
  • Weekly Encounter Room calls to help you live it
  • Monthly Refinery teaching and the full library
  • Help from Regan when you're stuck
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The Catholic differenceKnowing the virtue is the first step. Living it under pressure takes practice and people around you, which is why the fellowship exists.

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One of three ways we form the whole Catholic woman

Mind

Virtue Study

Stop letting false guilt make your decisions.

Body

Encounter Room

Finally follow through on what you already know is right.

 Soul

The Refinery

Close the gap between what you believe and how you live.

Rising Tide Fellowship offers educational and coaching support for personal formation and is not a licensed clinical or mental health practice.