When Christians think about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, their thoughts often rush to those gifts cited by St. Paul--healing, teaching, prophecy, prayer. . . . Melannie Svoboda, SND, takes seriously the "traditional" gifts of the Holy Spirit--but she believes that the Spirit's gifts are far broader and more common than most of us realize or are willing to accept.
In Gracious Goodness, Svoboda lists more than fifty gifts of the Spirit, many...