1.2 7 GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

• 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit:

  • Wisdom
  • Understanding
  • Knowledge
  • Counsel
  • Fortitude
  • Piety
  • Fear of the lord
• Wisdom - Gives us a loving knowledge with God, builds friendship with God.
• Understanding - Gives us better knowledge of God, it enables us to see all things
• Counsel - It teaches and instructs
• Fortitude - Strength to overcome challenges
• Knowledge - helps us understand spiritual manners, and all temporal activities must be directed to God.
• Piety - The teacher of divine filiation, it helps us see others as God sees them.
• Fear of the Lord - Gives holy fear not wordly fear, helps us stay away from sin and it leads to worship God.
• Wisdom - Closely related virtue to charity
• Wisdom - Associated with simple souls
• Understanding - Enables us to see all things with supernatural vision
• Counsel - Spiritual Direction helps us to grow
• The gift of wisdom is perfected by counsel
• Fortitude - Heroism in little things
• Knowledge - a contemplative gift
• Knowledge - we know through this gift that everything comes from God and is directed towards him.
• Piety - We can have a confident dialogue with God
• Piety - We call him "The Father"
• Fear of the Lord - Helps us stay away from sin
• Fear of the Lord - to avoid punishment and not to offend/
• Understanding - to grow we need a purity of heart
• Counsel - closely related to the virtue of prudence
• Fortitude - To live the virtues