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- Love. Agape love is the highest form of love, love for both God and neighbor. It is selfless, focused on the other person, given freely and gladly without condition or the expectation of repayment, expressed in service, and willing to suffer on another’s behalf.
- Joy. Joy is an interior contentment that comes from being close to God and in right relationship with others. Joy also comes with speaking and upholding the truth, honesty and integrity in relationships, enduring hardships and decent conduct.
- Peace. Peace is the harmony that occurs when justice prevails. It happens when resources are shared equitably, power is used for service, interdependence is fostered, information is shared openly and honestly, the dignity of each person is respected, legitimate differences are tolerated, the disadvantaged receive help, hurts are forgiven and the common good is upheld.
- Patience. Patience is the virtue of suffering interruption or delay with composure and without complaint; to suffer annoyance, insult or mistreatment with self-restraint, refusing to be provoked; and to suffer burdens and difficult tasks with resolve and determination.
- Love. First is love or charity, the first sign of our union with Christ. This is the most excellent of these fruits, making us feel that God is near and drawing us to lighten the burden others carry.
- Joy. This first and chief fruit of the Holy Spirit is followed necessarily by joy, since the lover rejoices in union with his beloved (St Thomas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, 70,3).
- Peace. Love and joy leave in the soul the peace of God which passes all understanding (Phil 4:7). St Augustine defines it as tranquillity in order (St Augustine, The City of God, 19, 13, 1).
- Patience. Only in heaven shall we find the fulness of love, joy and peace. Here we have a foretaste of eternal happiness in the measure in which we are faithful.
5 days ago · The fruits of the Holy Spirit “ are perfections that the Holy Spirit forms in us as the first fruits of eternal glory” ( Catechism, 1832). These are acts which the action of the Holy Spirit produces in our soul in a habitual way.
This passage in Matthew's Gospel helps us to understand the Fruits of the Holy Spirit, which are the observable behaviors of people who have allowed the grace of the Holy Spirit to be effective in them. The tradition of the Church lists 12 fruits: (adapted from CCC 1832)
6 days ago · “In our continuing catechesis on the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church, we now consider what are traditionally called ‘the fruits of the Holy Spirit,’ namely, love, joy, peace, patience ...
By opening our hearts and allowing the Holy Spirit to work within us, we can hope to bear these fruits as a sign of our growing relationship with God. They are the “first fruits of eternal glory” (CCC 1832), offering us a taste here on Earth of the joy and peace that await us in Heaven.
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4 days ago · 1832 – The fruits of the Spirit are perfections that the Holy Spirit forms in us as the first fruits of eternal glory. The tradition of the Church lists twelve of them: “charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, chastity.”
