{"id":7480,"date":"2011-06-10T01:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2011-06-05T06:05:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T10:05:02","slug":"the-gifts-and-the-fruits-of-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2011\/06\/10\/the-gifts-and-the-fruits-of-the-holy-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gifts and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Christian life is sustained by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These are the permanent dispositions that change the docile man to follow the impulses of the same Spirit.\u00a0The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude,\u00a0knowledge,\u00a0piety\u00a0and fear of\u00a0God<\/p>\n

“All those that are driven by the Spirit of God are sons of God… Sons and, therefore, heirs, heirs of God and co-heir of Christ”\u00a0(Rm 8:14-17)<\/p>\n

The fruits of the Holy Spirit are perfections that the Holy Spirit forms in us as\u00a0\u00a0the first fruits of eternal glory. The Church designates twelve: love,\u00a0joy,\u00a0peace,\u00a0patience, kindness,\u00a0goodness,\u00a0kindness,\u00a0gentleness, faithfulness,modesty, continence\u00a0and\u00a0chastity\u00a0(Gal.\u00a05:22-23).<\/p>\n

Human Freedom<\/p>\n

God\u00a0created\u00a0man\u00a0endowed\u00a0with reason and\u00a0gave him\u00a0the dignity\u00a0of\u00a0a\u00a0person\u00a0gracedwith the\u00a0initiative\u00a0and mastery\u00a0of his\u00a0actions.\u00a0“God\u00a0made\u00a0\u200b\u200bman in the\u00a0hands\u00a0of\u00a0his own counsel”\u00a0(Sir\u00a015:14),\u00a0that he might\u00a0find\u00a0himself\u00a0and\u00a0his\u00a0creator,\u00a0adhering\u00a0to Him\u00a0freely, arriving to the fullness\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0happinessof perfection.<\/p>\n

Then not having fixed definitively on his ultimate good, which is God, the freedom entails the possibility of choosing between the good and the bad, therefore, of growing in perfection or languishing in sin. It is charactized in the acts properly human. Becoming the font of praise or reprehension, of merits or demerits.<\/p>\n

The freedom is not in the man, it is a force of growth and maturity in truth and kindness. The freedom reaches the perfection when it is ordained to God our joy.<\/p>\n

The more the person practices the good, the more the person becomes free. He does not have freedom who is not being in service of good and of justice. The choice of disobedience and of evil is an abuse of liberty and drives one to the slavery of sin.<\/p>\n

Freedom becomes the man responsible for his own acts, in the measure in which they are willed. The progress in virtue, the knowledge of good and asceticism increase\u00a0the dominance\u00a0of the will over\u00a0his actions.<\/p>\n

The exercise of freedom is an inseparable demand of the dignity of the human person, over all in moral and religious matter. This right should be recognized civilly and protected in the limits of the common and of the public order.<\/p>\n

Fr. Wagner Baia<\/p>\n

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