Eutrapelia Grand Rapids

Taken in its broadest sense, Eutrapelia is the virtue of right recreation whereby the human person is ennobled to pursue bodily exercise and spiritual mirth in the right proportions.

This is a group for Catholic men to get together and participate in the virtue of Eutrapelia ...and that may happen to involve a variety of organized competitive activities.

St. Thomas Aquinas speaking of this virtue:

Just as man needs bodily rest for the body’s refreshment, because he cannot always be at work, since his power is finite and equal to a certain fixed amount of labor, so too is it with his soul, whose power is also finite and equal to a fixed amount of work … The soul’s rest is pleasure, as stated above. Consequently, the remedy for weariness of soul must needs consist in the application of some pleasure … man’s mind would break if its tension were never relaxed. Now such like words or deeds wherein nothing further is sought than the soul’s delight, are called playful or humorous. Hence it is necessary at times to make use of them, in order to give rest, as it were, to the soul.