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Charisms of the Spirit

A listing of the spiritual gifts given by the Holy Spirit, including wisdom, knowledge, healings, faith, miracles, prophecy, discernment, tongues, and interpretation.

Charisms. Of the Spirit,¹ !² Wisdom, the word of knowledge, the gift of healings, faith, the working of miracles.³⁴ Prophecy, Discernment of spirits.^✦ Kinds of tongues.^✦⁵ Interpretation

Prayers Founded on Creation and Redemption

Petitions based on God's work in creation and redemption, including the plea not to despise the work of God's hands and not to let the redeemed perish.

I believe, because you created me. The work of your hands Of tongues.^✦ 1 Cor. 15 Don't despise me!⁶ Because I am made in your image and likeness:⁷ Do not allow your likeness to be worn away!^✦ For you redeemed me with your blood—that is the price.^✦^✦⁸ Of Redemption.⁹ Do not let me perish.¹⁰

Prayers Founded on Baptism and Incorporation into Christ

Petitions grounded in the believer's baptism, sanctification, and grafting into the mystical body of Christ, concluding with the plea not to be cut off.

Because you have called me a Christian by your name:¹¹ Your mark¹² Don't despise it!¹³ Because you have sanctified me in regeneration: Your holiness Do not destroy me!¹⁴ Because you grafted me into the good olive tree, A member of the mystical body: a member of your mystical body.^✦ Don't cut me off!¹⁵

Read the original Latin

Charismata. Spiritus,

! Sapientiz, Sermo NM Scientiz, τ Gratia sanitatum, Fides, C Operatio virtutum. Prophetia,

Discretio Spirituum. Genera

Interpretatio

CREDO Quia me creasti:

Opus manuum tuarum

Linguarum. l Cor. xu

ne despicias!

Quia ad imaginem tuam, et similitudinem :

similitudinem tuam ne sinas deteri! Quia sanguine tuo me redemisti : Pretium. Redemptionis

ne sinas perire.

Quia de nomine tuo Christianum appellasti :

Characterem tuum

ne contemmas !

Quia me in regeneratione sanctificasti :

Sanctitatem tuam

ne perdas !

Quia me inseruisti in bonam olivam,

Membrum corporis mystici : Membrum corporis tui mystici

ne pr:scindas !

Scripture echoes

↩1Cor.12.10 — to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues
↩1Cor.12.10 — to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues
↩Ps.137.8 — Daughter Babylon, the one who is destroyed — blessed is the one who repays you with the same treatment you gave us.
↩Gen.1.26-Gen.1.27 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Gen.1.27 — So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
↩1Pet.1.18-1Pet.1.19;Eph.1.7;Rev.5.9 — knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things—silver or gold—from your futile way of life handed down from your fathers, 1Pet.1.19 — but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot Eph.1.7 — In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, Rev.5.9 — And they sing a new song, saying: 'You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed for God people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.'
↩1Cor.6.20 — For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
↩Rom.12.4-Rom.12.5;1Cor.12.12-1Cor.12.27 — For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, Rom.12.5 — So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 1Cor.12.12 — For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ. 1Cor.12.13 — For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 1Cor.12.14 — For the body is not one member, but many. 1Cor.12.15 — If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it is not for that reason any less a part of the body. 1Cor.12.16 — And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it is not for that reason any less a part of the body. 1Cor.12.17 — If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 1Cor.12.18 — But now God has placed each one of the members in the body just as he desired. 1Cor.12.19 — If they were all one member, where would the body be? 1Cor.12.20 — Now there are many parts, but one body. 1Cor.12.21 — The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." 1Cor.12.22 — On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are in fact indispensable. 1Cor.12.23 — and the parts of the body that we consider less honorable, we clothe with greater honor; and our unpresentable parts receive greater propriety, 1Cor.12.24 — but our presentable parts have no such need. Rather, God has composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 1Cor.12.25 — so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 1Cor.12.26 — And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 1Cor.12.27 — Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.

Notes

1 ↩Spiritus may be taken as genitive with Charismata (charisms of the Spirit) or as a standalone nominative list-head; the following section’s 1 Cor 12-style gift list supports the genitive reading.
2 ↩Source is only an isolated exclamation mark with no recoverable Latin content; treated as segmentation/OCR debris between Spiritus and the charism list.
3 ↩Normalized heavily corrupted list as Sapientia/Sapientiae; Sermo scientiae; Gratia sanitatum; Fides; Operatio virtutum. Discarded unreadable tokens NM, τ, and C as OCR/encoding noise.
4 ↩Sapientiz may stand for Sapientia alone or for the fuller Pauline sermo sapientiae (word of wisdom); rendered as Wisdom to keep the list parallel with neighboring gift titles.
5 ↩Supplied Latin is only 'Genera'; in this charism sequence (after Discretio Spirituum, before Interpretatio) the intended phrase is almost certainly genera linguarum.
6 ↩Latin has no expressed object; first-person 'me' is supplied from the prayer register and the following clause about being made in God's image and likeness. A plural reading ('us') is also possible if the surrounding office is corporate.
7 ↩The Latin is elliptical (Quia ad imaginem tuam, et similitudinem), with no explicit verb; the rendering supplies the conventional sense of creation 'after/in' God's image (cf. Gen 1:26–27 phrasing ad imaginem et similitudinem).
8 ↩Pretium is left as a capitalized liturgical label, completed by s3 (Redemptionis) as 'Price of Redemption,' not recast as ordinary prose.
9 ↩Genitive fragment completing Pretium (s2): pretium redemptionis = 'the Price of Redemption.' Kept as a standalone title-line to match the source segmentation.
10 ↩Latin has no expressed object (ne sinas perire). In the surrounding petition after the redemption-price clauses and similitudinem tuam ne sinas deteri, the implied object is the speaker (me), not an abstract 'it'.
11 ↩Latin has no explicit object; me is supplied from the prayer context (cf. previous ne sinas perire). Christianum is predicate accusative with appellasti.
12 ↩Latin characterem here is the indelible baptismal/Christian seal (sacramental character), not personality or moral disposition; next clause supplies the verb (ne contemmas).
13 ↩Object of contemnas is not stated in this section; neighboring context supplies Characterem tuum (your seal/character). Rendered with a neutral 'it' so the fragment can stand alone without inventing 'me' or restating the prior section.
14 ↩Latin has only ne perdas without an expressed object; prayer context and the following olive-graft petition make the speaker the implied object (cf. common biblical ne perdas me).
15 ↩Source reads 'ne pr:scindas !' with an abbreviated form. Expanded as ne praescindas / ne prescindas ('do not cut off / do not sever'), taking the prior line on membership in Christ's mystical body as the governing context; the object 'me' is supplied from that petitionary setting.

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