Do you believe Charisms of the Holy Spirit are still at work?

[christopher-m]

Catholics call St. Paul’s list of gifts in 1 Corinthians 12: 8-10 Charisms of the Holy Spirit. These charisms are: speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, discernment of spirits, prophesy, healings, miracles, faith, word of knowledge, and word of wisdom. (This list is as opposed to the traditional Gifts of the Holy Spirit from Isaiah 11: 2 in the Septuagint, which are: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and the fear of the Lord.)

Do you believe that the Holy Spirit is still at work in today’s world with His Charisms of the Holy Spirit?

 

[MommaKat]

We may not see it around us unless we watch carefully. There is a Doctor in my area with the Charism of healing by prayer. There is the charism of caring for the poor like we saw with Mother Theresa of Calcutta. The world doesn’t show the charisms very often.

 

[puzzleannie]

obviously the gifts and charisms of the Holy Spirit are still at work because the Catholic Church is still alive and well, still preaching the truth, and the gates of hell have not prevailed against her. We have heard prophesy in our generation, most of all from our late beloved Pope. Prophesy is usually spoken in plain reasonable language, not usually revealed by heavenly visitors (although that may be happening today as well) or through tongues. The more mundane gifts that Paul ranks above tongues, such as administration, preaching, teaching and healing are still business as usual in this great Church.

Once specific and hugely important gift actively in use today is discernment of spirits, the ability to judge between the currents and pressures of society and culture and the will of God. The Catholic Church stands virtually alone in correctly discerning “the spirit of the age” and clinging to the truth. The trouble is, as has happened in every age, that those who should speak for and through the Church often disdain her discernment and prophesy.

Catholic institutions who have made a deliberate effort to consecrate their work to the Holy Spirit have enjoyed great fruits – one notable example is Franciscan University of Steubenville Ohio, a small college on the verge of closing due to lack of enrollment that is now one of the nations premier truly Catholic colleges, thanks to Fr. Michael Scanlan’s “word of knowledge” which led him to invoke the Holy Spirit in all phases of decision making and activity for this institution.