A Topic of Moral Theology

The Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Beatitudes and Fruits

The seven gifts in general and in particular; the beatitudes and fruits.

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seven gifts · wisdom understanding counsel fortitude knowledge piety fear of the lord (ed.)

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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. III, Dissertation II. On the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, n. ¶1 — We shall speak first of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in general; then of the same gifts in particular.Read in context →

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. I, Pt. II, Q. I, Art. 9. The Sins Against B…, The Beatitude and the Fruits That Correspond to Wisdom, nn. 1619 & 1620 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium

Vol. I, TREATISE ON VIRTUES, n. ¶3 — ON THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.. The Gifts of the Holy Spirit are supernatural habits by which the just man is well disposed toward more excellent acts of the virtues. Hence it is clear how they are distinguished from the virtues which they assist and p… Read in context →

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, On the Principles of Moral…, Book First. On The Ultimat…, Second Question. On The Me…, Third Article. On The Gifts Of The Holy Spirit, nn. 32, 33 & 34 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Habits and Vi…, Third Part: On Habits Acco…, Question Two: On the Disti…, Article III: On the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, nn. ¶1, 630, 631, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636 & 637 (22 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Faith, Third Part: On the Habit o…, Question Four: On the Gifts Corresponding to Faith, nn. ¶1, 730, 731 & 732 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Hope, Second Part: On the Habit …, Question Three: On the Fear of God, nn. ¶1, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827 & 828 (20 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, First Part: On Prudence It…, Question Two: On the Parts…, Article IV: On the Gift of Counsel, nn. ¶1, 32, 33 & 34 (14 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Fifth Part: On the Virtues…, Section F: On Other Habits…, Question Six: On the Gift of Piety, nn. ¶1, 894 & 895 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Catechism Explained: An Exhaustive Exposition of the Christian Religion

Pt. II, Vice and Virtue, Perfection, C. CHRISTIAN PERFECTION, IV. THE EIGHT BEATITUDES, nn. ¶1–¶27 (27 passages)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Question XXX: On the gift of understanding, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXX, Doubt I: Whether understanding is a gift of the Holy Ghost, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXX, Doubt II: Whether the gift of understanding can coexist with faith, nn. 1, 2, 3 & 4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXX, Doubt III: Whether the gift of understanding consists in the contemplation of the Creator and of the creature, nn. 1–23 (23 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXX, Doubt IV: Whether the gift of understanding is found in all who have grace, and whether in these alone, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXX, Doubt V: What is the necessity and utility of the gift of understanding, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXX, Doubt VI: Whether the sixth beatitude, Blessed are the clean of heart, corresponds to the gift of understanding, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXX, Doubt VII: Whether faith, among the fruits of the Holy Ghost, corresponds to the gift of understanding, n. 1 — The holy Doctors assert that to the gift of Understanding there corresponds, among the fruits of the Holy Spirit, faith, and they prove it; Since, indeed, the Theological and Divine truths, which are revealed to us by fa… Read in context →

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Question XXXI: On the gift of knowledge, n. 1 — To faith also pertains the gift of science; since, indeed, faith in itself is obscure, indicating what is to be done, but not in all things how to act, this gratuitous Gift is given by the Holy Spirit, through which fait… Read in context →

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXXI, Doubt I: Whether knowledge is a gift of the Holy Ghost, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXXI, Doubt II: Whether knowledge is concerned with divine things, nn. 1, 2, 3 & 4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXXI, Doubt III: Whether the gift of knowledge is speculative, nn. 1, 2, 3 & 4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Q. XXXI, Doubt IV: Whether the third beatitude, Blessed are they that mourn, corresponds to the gift of knowledge, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift of Fear, n. 1 — Of that fear there is chiefly to be disputed, whence God begins to taste of wisdom to the mind, and the creature to be foolish; of this the Seraphic Doctor says on the seven Gifts, cap. 3. on the gift of fear, that it ne… Read in context →

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question I: Whether fear is a habit distinct from hope, nn. 1–22 (22 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question II: What the object of fear is, nn. 1–18 (18 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question III: Whether worldly fear is always evil, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question IV: Whether servile fear is honorable, and a gift of God, nn. 1–41 (41 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question V: Whether servile fear is cast out when grace comes, nn. 1–18 (18 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question VI: Whether initial and filial fear differ specifically, nn. 1–18 (18 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question VII: Whether, as charity grows, fear diminishes, nn. 1–17 (17 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question VIII: Whether gratuitous fear remains in heaven, nn. 1–21 (21 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question IX: Whether poverty of spirit corresponds to the gift of fear, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation V: On the Gift…, Question X: On the effects, and the precept, of the fear of God, nn. 1, 2, 3 & 4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation XIX: On the Gift of Wisdom, n. 1 — Although charity may make the yoke easy, it is not relishing without wisdom, which affects the affective and the intellective powers together, and the rest, through redundancy; and it is deservedly called a GIFT, because… Read in context →

Tr. I, Disputation XIX: On the Gi…, Question I: What kind of gift wisdom is, nn. 1–16 (16 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation XIX: On the Gi…, Question II: What is the usefulness, and necessity, of this gift, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation XIX: On the Gi…, Question III: How the gift of wisdom is obtained from God, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation XIX: On the Gi…, Question IV: On the illumination that wisdom brings, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation XIX: On the Gi…, Question V: On the spiritual delights of wisdom, nn. 1–16 (16 passages)

Tr. I, Disputation XIX: On the Gi…, Question VII: Whether the seventh beatitude corresponds to the gift of wisdom, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation XXI: On the Gi…, Question I: What the gift of counsel is, and what its office is, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation XXI: On the Gi…, Question II: How the gift of counsel orders the mind, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation XXI: On the Gi…, Question III: Whether the gift of counsel remains in heaven, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. IV, Disputation XIII: On the O…, Sect. V, Friendship, Liberality, Epikeia, and the Opposed V…, Question VI: On the gift of piety, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. V, Disputation I: On Fortitude, Question II: On the gift of fortitude, n. 1 — THE GIFT of fortitude is a habit existing, as in a subject, in the will, insofar as it is engaged about arduous things, and it easily makes it mobile for repelling fears and repressing daring, with the hope of escaping a… Read in context →

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, Pt. I, Tract VI. On Virtues In Ge…, Ch. I, Article II. On The Relation Between Virtues And The Gifts And Fruits Of The Holy Spirit And The Beatitudes, nn. ¶62, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454 & 455 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Fundamental Moral Theology — Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910) — this work does not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so its treatment stands one heading up (ed.)