310. Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit

YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 310

Ave Maria series

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]

Top photo: Fredrick place in Rhinelander, a temporary shelter for the homeless, came into being through the effort of a committee led by deacon Bill Miller (right) of Nativity of Our Lord parish. Deacon Miller died in 2018. …..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).  113-120

“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]

THE GIFTS AND FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

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. 

Let your good spirit lead me on a level path. (Psalm 143:10.)¹¹⁰ 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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