In Catholicism, the belief in the Communion of Saints is such that yes, my "virtues travel to unreached/inactive places and spread the gospel there". Because we believe our virtues are united to those of Christ's, they have Christ's universality. Our virtues are our participation in the Divine Nature, united to the One person of Jesus Christ, present at all times and in all places.So your virtues get people to come to church? Your virtues get impoverished parishes the resources they need? Your virtues travel to unreached/inactive places and spread the gospel there? I'm just a bit confused because you seem to be answering in terms of how you act towards others in society, which is a good thing of course but doesn't really tell us anything about the faith itself. If I'm really nice to people, they don't say "Wow, he's so nice, we should go to his church." The whole 'they will know we are Christians by our love' idea works only in societies where there is a very thick line between Christians and the rest of society, which usually isn't the case in the West because they're Christian-majority societies without very many practitioners, that have been (or are being) very successfully secularized such that no one would think of anyone else's loving behavior as a manifestation of Christ, even if that's exactly what it is and is intended to be to the person who is expressing love.
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