https://brasiliensis.cerm.org.br/index.php/brasiliensis/article/view/72 In consonance with the perspective of II Vatican Council, it approaches the virtue of charity in the range of moral theology, inserting it in dynamic of Christian life since horizon of practice of virtues and of testimony with its implications to the called to the experience of a communitarian life in church’s context. The patent resonance of St. Thomas Aquinas’ thought, enriched by consistence of Church’s mastership and by refreshing of recent interpretations, results into the proposition of a moral of virtues that illuminate the commandment of charity lived as a gift highlighting the role of love and human acting. Keywords: Charity. Moral. Virtues. Thomas Aquinas. II...