What is the gift of the Holy Ghost that corresponds to prudence?
The gift of counsel (LII.).
What is this gift?
It is a supernatural perfection of man's practical reason
that makes him docile and ready under the action of the
Holy Ghost to take counsel and to sift well everything
that in life relates to salvation; this gift is therefore of the
greatest help to man, for even though he possess all the
acquired and the infused virtues he cannot do without
this gift, which helps him to make a perfect judgment
and act of command, since he is for ever liable to err.
amidst the complexity of circumstances that accompany
every human act (LII. 1, 2).
Will the gift of counsel exist also in heaven?
Yes, but in a way much more perfect (LII. 3).
In what more perfect way will it exist there?
In this way: the minds of the blessed in heaven will be
wondrously enlightened by God as regards all human
activity in so far as it harmonizes with the final end
which is already in their possession; and this, whether
there be question of those acts which, for evermore, shall
be produced in virtue of the actual possession of the
final end; or there be question of the help the blessed
are destined to give until the last day, to those on earth
that they also may gain heaven (LII. 3).
Next - The Catechism of the Summa - SECOND SECTION - A DETAILED SURVEY OF MAN'S RETURN TO GOD - XV. OF THE SINS THAT ARE OPPOSED TO PRUDENCE, VIZ., OF IMPRUDENCE; HASTINESS; LACK OF THOUGHT; INCONSTANCY; NEGLIGENCE; FALSE PRUDENCE; PRUDENCE OF THE FLESH; SLYNESS; DECEIT; FRAUD; FALSE SOLICITUDE (A)
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