Dear Parishioners and Friends,
We conclude this series of Pastor’s Corner on the gifts of
the Holy Spirit with a few words about wisdom.
Thanks to the gift of wisdom the soul acquires an
incredibly strong supernatural sense. With the help of this gift we can see and
judge every situation not in a human way but from the point of view of God. With
this gift the Holy Spirit helps us contemplate divine things and to grow in
union with God. With this gift, even an “uneducated soul” can possess the most
profound knowledge of the divine.
Wisdom gives us the ability to see our personal joys and
sorrows, the pleasures and pains, successes and failures of our life within the
divine perspective. At the same time we see that same providential hand guiding
the big events of history by which the Lord God rules and governs the world.
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit are without question great
gifts essential for our sanctification and salvation. Each baptized and confirmed
Christian should implore the Holy Spirit to inflame in his soul these gifts. All
of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit work together in our soul to make us
saints. These gifts build on one another in a beautiful way: through the fear
of the Lord, we rise to piety, from piety then to knowledge, from knowledge we
derive strength, from strength counsel, with counsel we move towards
understanding, and with intelligence towards wisdom.
In Christ,
Msgr. Baker
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