04/05/2026
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The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are, according to Catholic Tradition, wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of God. The standard interpretation has been the one that St. Thomas Aquinas worked out in the thirteenth century in his Summa Theologiae.
These gifts, according to Aquinas, are โhabits,โ โinstincts,โ or โdispositionsโ provided by God as supernatural helps to man in the process of his โperfection.โ
The goal of this cooperation among virtues, gifts, and fruits is the attainment of the eight-fold state of beatitude described by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount.