Spiritual Gifts Inventory & Descriptions

The Holy Spirit works through an administrators’ passion for organizing and managing resources. Administrators often love details, delegating tasks, and tying up loose ends for effective productivity for kingdom purposes. 

Saint: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini 

Those with this charism nurture and guide others in a group setting as they journey together in their faith. They develop relationships with those in the group to form and empower them in their relationship with Christ and with one another.

Saint: St. Teresa of Avila

The Holy Spirit works through caregivers to bear the limitations of others and help them do daily tasks more effectively. Similar to Mercy, Caregiving provides long-term practical assistance and relief, and involves a willingness to help others even when the jobs are messy or involve getting into close proximity with people who are elderly, disabled, sick, or handicapped.

Saint: Blessed Margaret of Castello

The Holy Spirit works through Discernment to distinguish between truth and error and to identify whether something is of God or the enemy. This gift is not a simple human “knowing,” as it involves knowledge of God and Scripture, and intimate prayer.

Saint: St. Padre Pio

The Holy Spirit works through Encouragers to lift the spirits of others. Encouragers are exceptional listeners, they help others to feel heard, seen, and cared for, often leading them to a renewed sense of well-being and new hope. They are conduits of hope and mercy, and feel energized by these encounters of love.

Saint: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

The Holy Spirit works through Evangelism to bring others to the Church and to deeper discipleship within and beyond the parish. This gift involves a boldness in sharing the Good News and one’s personal faith journey. Acts 8:26-40, II Timothy 4:5

 Saint: St. Patrick

The Charism of Healing empowers a Christian to be a channel of God’s love through whom God cures illness and restores health when healing is unlikely to occur quickly or to happen at all (Catholic Encyclopedia), especially through touch and pronouncement of healing the Name of Jesus Christ. 

Saint: Archangel St. Raphael

The Holy Spirit works through this gift to warmly welcome and care for those in need of food, shelter, and friendship. Those with this gift encounter Christ in the stranger and/or feel fulfilled in bringing people together under a feeling of “home.”

Saint: St. Benedict of Nursia

Those with this charism exhibit a profound trust in the activity of the Holy Spirit interacting in the lives of others, especially those in need. They feel strongly called to pray and intercede for others with patience, empathy, and compassion, confident that God hears and responds to their prayers.
Saint: St. Therese, the Little Flower

Those with this charism are compelled to relieve physical, spiritual, or emotional suffering with great sacrifice and tenderness. They share God’s love with exceptional empathy and compassion.

saint: Dorothy Day

Those with this charism are globally and culturally aware of the universal Church. The seek to grow the Kingdom by teaming up with and/or serving people of different cultural, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds with whom they feel at home as part of their community. 

Saint: St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta

Those with this charism use their abilities of musical writing and/or performing (vocally/instrumentally) to offer praise and worship to God and for the enjoyment of others. They passionately experience Christ’s presence and help lead others to encounter God’s presence through the gift of music.

Saint: St. Hildegard of Bingen

The Charism of Teaching empowers a Christian to be a channel of God’s truth and wisdom by enabling others to learn information and skills that help them reach their fullest spiritual and personal potential (Catholic Encyclopedia).

Saint: St. John Bosco

Those with the Charism of Trust exhibit unusual long-term trust in the love, power, and provision of God, especially against seeming evidence to the contrary. They continue in obedience long after others are gone or have given up, and they inspire deeper trust in those around them. 

Saint: St. John the Apostle