While prudence operates in accord with reason as enlightened by faith, the gift of counsel operates under the guidance of the Holy Spirit to illuminate the will of God. It perfects the cardinal virtue of prudence. See also: Christian counseling and Nouthetic counselingД¬ounsel functions as a sort of supernatural intuition, to enable a person to judge promptly and rightly, especially in difficult situations. This all gives a person a profound appreciation for GodвЂ™s providence. This gift strengthens one's insight through prayer, scripture, and the sacraments. Understanding helps one relate all truths to one's supernatural purpose it further illuminates one's understanding of Sacred Scripture and it assists us to understand the significance of religious ritual. Adolphe Tanquerey OP explained the difference between the gift of wisdom and that of understanding: 'The latter is a view taken by the mind, while the former is an experience undergone by the heart one is light, the other love, and so they unite and complete one another.' A wise and loving heart is the perfection of the theological virtue of charity. Bernard, it both illumines the mind and instills an attraction to the divine. It acts upon both the intellect and the will. Wisdom is considered the first and the greatest of the gifts. The Catholic teaching is echoed by the Anglican church, which teaches that 'the imparting of the gifts of the Spirit is associated with baptism, as well as Confirmation and Ordination.' Confirmation completes Baptism for it is through the Laying On of Hands by the bishop that the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit are bestowed. Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed.' Anglican Communion 'The reception of the sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace,' for 'by the sacrament of Confirmation, are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Catholicism ДЄlthough the New Testament does not refer to Isaiah 11:1-2 regarding these gifts, According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, these gifts 'complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them.' Initiates receive them at Baptism and they are strengthened at Confirmation, so that one can proclaim the truths of the faith. For Saint Thomas Aquinas, the dove signifies by its properties each gift of the Holy Spirit. The seven gifts were often represented as doves in medieval texts and especially figure in depictions of the Tree of Jesse which shows the Genealogy of Jesus. Others include the seven deadly sins, the seven virtues, the seven last words from the cross, the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer, and the Beatitudes. The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit is one of several lists of virtues, vices and blessings in Christian devotional literature which follow a scheme of seven. cognitiЕЌ (or scientia as in the above scripture).The names of the seven gifts mentioned in the Greek translation were then translated into Latin as follows: The Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD.

The Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,

In the earliest Greek translation (the Septuagint), the first mention of the fear of the Lord is translated as 'spirit of godliness' ( ПЂОЅОµбї¦ОјО± ОµбЅђПѓОµОІОµОЇО±П‚). The last characteristic (fear of the Lord) is mentioned twice. In the Hebrew version (the Masoretic text), the 'Spirit of the Lord' is described with six characteristics: wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and вЂњfear of the LordвЂќ. The Greek and Hebrew versions of the Bible differ slightly in how the gifts are enumerated. The seven gifts are found in the Book of Isaiah 11:1-2, a passage which refers to the characteristics of a Messianic figure empowered by the 'Spirit of the Lord'. Folio from Walters manuscript W.171 (15th century)

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