YOUCAT Lesson 310
YOUCAT the catechism for Catholic youth
310 What are the seven gifts
of the Holy Spirit?
The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom,
understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. With these the Holy Spirit “endows”
Christians, in other words, he grants them particular powers that go beyond
their natural aptitudes and gives them the opportunity to become God’s special
instruments in this world. [1830-1831, 1845]
Photo: …... Fredrick Place in Rhinelander is a temporary shelter for
the homeless.
….. inset photos clockwise
from upper left are examples of rooms within: women's sitting room, men's dorm,
kitchen, and community room. …..310
“The most important hour is always the present; the
most significant person is precisely the one who is sitting across from you
right now; the most necessary work is always love.” Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260-1328)
We read in one of Paul’s letters: “To one is given through
the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge
according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another
gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to
another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to
another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues” (1 Corinthians 12:8-10).
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“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also
do the works that I do: and greater works than these will he do, because I go
to the Father.” John 14:12
1830-1831, 1845
1830 The moral life of Christians is sustained by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These are permanent dispositions which make man docile in following the promptings of the Holy Spirit. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
1831 The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom,
understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. They
belong in their fullness to Christ, Son of David.( Compare Isaiah 11:1-2.)109 They
complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them. They make the
faithful docile in readily obeying divine inspirations.
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God
. . . If children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with
Christ.( Romans 8:14,17.)111 –CCC
IN BRIEF
1845 The seven gifts of the Holy
Spirit bestowed upon Christians are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude,
knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. --CCC
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