02/16/2026
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐น๐ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐๏ธ๐โ๏ธ
โ ๐ช๐ถ๐๐ฑ๐ผ๐บ is the ability to exercise good judgment. It distinguishes between right and wrong, seeks and upholds truth and justice, and balances personal good with the common good. It is in touch with reality, demonstrates common sense and is prudent. It often increases as a person advances in years and gains life experience. In the Old Testament, wisdom is personified by โSophia,โ the mythical mother of faith, hope and love; while in the New Testament, wisdom is personified by Jesus himself.
โ ๐จ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด is the gift of intelligence and enlightenment. It is the ability to think clearly; to perceive, comprehend and interpret information; and to have insight and discern meaning.
โ ๐๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐น is good advice. It is the ability to teach, inform, guide, direct, warn, admonish, recommend and encourage. It is not limited to the giving of advice but extends to the ability to graciously receive it. The gift is needed by parents, teachers, coaches, supervisors, mentors, therapists, lawyers, clergy, consultants, elders and spouses โ anyone who offers advice to others.
โ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฒ is an unwavering commitment to God or a proper course of action, and it shows itself as moral strength, courage, determination, patient endurance, long suffering, a resolute spirit, stamina and resiliency.
โ ๐๐ป๐ผ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ is the ability to study and learn; to acquire, retain and master facts and information; and to put what is learned to good use for constructive purposes.
โ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ is awe, reverence and respect for God. It acknowledges that everything comes as a gift from God, downplays personal achievement and self-sufficiency, and gladly offers praise, worship and adoration to God.
โ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ is personal holiness, and it includes devotion to God, prayer, virtue, goodness, decency, self-mastery, innocence, the avoidance of sin and obedience to Godโs will.
These are heroic character traits that Jesus Christ alone possesses in their plenitude but that he freely shares with the members of his mystical body (i.e., his Church). These traits are infused into every Christian as a permanent endowment at his baptism, nurtured by the practice of the seven virtues, and sealed in the sacrament of confirmation. They are also known as the sanctifying gifts of the Spirit, because they serve the purpose of rendering their recipients docile to the promptings of the Holy Spirit in their lives, helping them to grow in holiness and making them fit for heaven.
