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Knowledge is the fifth of the seven sanctifying gifts of the Holy Spirit. As we have discussed previously, all the sanctifying gifts are ordered toward

I once read that there was a person who felt a certain envy for the early martyrs of the Church. Where most people feel fear,

As we saw last time, the gift of Fortitude, while related to the natural virtue of Fortitude, also goes beyond mere earthly courage — just

As noted previously in this series, grace perfects nature. So we saw that the natural virtue of Prudence is elevated by grace in the gift of Counsel.

So many of us seem to think that while the faith insists on being incorrigibly public and common to all Catholics, it is also “private,”