From Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.'s
The Three Ages of the Spiritual Life, part I, article IV, "
The Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost" (fn. 39), the relationship between the gifts of the Holy Ghost and the beatitudes, based on St. Thomas Aquinas's doctrine:
- Gift of Wisdom → Peacemakers (IIa IIae, q.45, a.6): "it gives peace and allows the soul possessing it to give it to others, at times even to the most troubled"
- Gift of Understanding → Clean of Heart (q.8, a.7): "those who possess this cleanness of heart begin here on earth, in a certain way, to see God in all that happens to us"
- Gift of Knowledge → Mourners (q.9, a.4): "shows us the gravity of sin" (which is the turning to creatures instead of God)
- Gift of Counsel → The Merciful (q.52, a.4): "inclines the soul to mercy"
- Gift of Piety → The Meek (q.121, a.2): "makes us see in men not rivals, but children of God and our brothers"
- Gift of Fortitude → Those Hungering & Thirsting for Justice (q.139, a.2): they "never become discouraged"
- Gift of Fear → The Poor in Spirit (q.19, a.12): "they possess the holy fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom"
The relationship of the gifts to the virtues:
See also Benedict Ashley, O.P.'s "
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit."
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