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00:00Welcome brothers, we are going to talk now about the gift of understanding, the gift of understanding
00:18It is a supernatural habit infused by God with sanctifying grace; let's see what it tells us.
00:28sacred scripture regarding this gift and how it manifests itself in man in concrete acts if the
00:37The gift of understanding has as its main object revealed truths; it is undeniable that Jesus already
00:44From childhood he possessed it perfectly; at 12 years old in the temple he produced the greatest admiration.
00:52Among the doctors of the law, all who heard him were astonished by his intelligence and his answers
01:01Luke 2:47 And as Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men,
01:12This gift of understanding increased in him over the years when in the synagogue of Nazareth
01:19For example, he explains the scriptures referring to him: everyone approved of him and marveled at his works.
01:28gracious words that came from his mouth
01:31The gift of understanding also works to a very high degree on the agiographers of the New Testament.
01:41illuminating the minds of the evangelists Paul and John, and in one degree or another, it enlightens all.
01:50Disciples of Christ, to all believers in Christ Jesus, Saint Paul says, you have been enriched in every way.
01:59in every word and in all knowledge, and thus the faithful must be filled with all knowledge
02:08and able to advise each other
02:12Understanding revealed divine truths undoubtedly requires meditation, study, and doing
02:24like Mary, who treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart, but it is achieved above all in the
02:34In his prayer of supplication, Saint Paul frequently asks for this gift of the Holy Spirit for the faithful whom he...
02:42also with the help of the same spirit has evangelized and converted, let us see in the sacred
02:50Scriptures in the letter of Saint Paul to the Colossians, chapter 1, verses 9 to 10
02:57That is why we have not stopped praying for you since the day we heard about you, and asking that you
03:11may come to the full knowledge of His will with complete wisdom and spiritual understanding so that
03:21Live in a manner worthy of the Lord, pleasing him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work and growing
03:30in the knowledge of God
03:33Let us delve deeper into the reflection on the gift of understanding
03:42The gift of understanding is a supernatural habit infused by God with sanctifying grace.
03:51through which the believer's understanding, by the work of the Holy Spirit, penetrates the truths
04:00revealed with superhuman clarity in a divine way beyond the human and discursive mode
04:08The gift of understanding, therefore, resides in the mind of the believer and perfects the exercise of faith.
04:17which is no longer subject to the human mode of rational discourse but transcends it
04:25coming to know the truths revealed in the divine way in a simple, quick, and luminous intuition
04:36As Saint Thomas says, feeling belongs to faith
04:42to penetrate deeply into revealed truths and the gift of understanding
04:49The gift of understanding thus differs from the virtue of faith and perfects its exercise
04:57But it is also distinct from the other intellectual gifts of the Holy Spirit, as he points out.
05:05Father Rollo Marín said that the gift of understanding aims to grasp and penetrate truths.
05:14revealed by a profound supernatural intuition but without passing judgment on them
05:22The one of science, on the other hand, under the special prompting of the Holy Spirit, judges things rightly.
05:33created in order to the ultimate supernatural end, and in this it is also distinguished from the gift of wisdom
05:42whose function is to judge divine things, not created things
05:48It is therefore easily deduced that the gift of understanding is necessary for supernatural knowledge
05:59May the revealed truths become in the believer a high, profound, and intuitive understanding in the divine way.
06:08and so that it may overcome the human mode of faith which, being rooted in reason, is an obligatory virtue
06:18to practice discursively through analysis and synthesis, through composition and division
06:26The gift of understanding is what leads to what a St. John of the Cross calls pure faith.
06:34It is the contemplative faith of the mystics that, as we shall see in the saints, penetrates deeply into the
06:45Divine revelation has granted few the authority to speak of faith as eloquently as St. John of the Cross
06:53That which brings faith closer to the beatific vision; this is the great satisfaction and contentment of the soul
07:02To see that she gives to God more than she herself is worth, with that same divine light which is faith and divine warmth
07:15which is charity that gives it, which in the next life is through the light of glory and in this one through the most enlightened faith
07:27This most lucid faith is that which is assisted by the intellectual gifts of the Holy Spirit.
07:35and specifically through the gift of understanding when it is necessary to penetrate revealed truths
07:43On the contrary, the vices opposed to the gift of understanding are spiritual blindness and
07:52dulling of the spiritual sense; the first completely deprives one of spiritual vision and the
08:00Secondly, it weakens and hinders it considerably; Saint Thomas shows the connection of these vices to the
08:09Carnal sins such as lust and gluttony, but they also undoubtedly stem from other spiritual vices.
08:18especially pride and vanity, sins that make men particularly foolish
08:26"Boasting of wisdom, they became fools," Romans 1:12 tells us.
08:31It is evident, moreover, that the Christian absorbed in the ever-changing vanities of the world who does not
08:44It is more interesting because of what happens that it has neither prayer nor recollection of the mind and senses
08:53He is open to any intellectual mode of the world but reluctant to accept the
09:00Apostolic teaching: this Christian, even if bad, should keep the faith, no matter how much he reads and studies.
09:09It is impossible for the Holy Spirit to habitually illuminate him with the superhuman lucidity of the gift of
09:16understanding in which saints can we find this gift of understanding as a manifestation of the
09:24The presence of God and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially the gift of understanding, shine through them.
09:31with an admirable, continuous radiance so wonderful that it cannot be attributed merely to qualities
09:39human, how else to explain the prodigious inspiration that on one page and another and in some
09:48In those same years, he illuminates and propels internally Saint Paul, Saint Luke, Saint Peter, and Saint John, if not for
09:57work of the Holy Spirit through the gift of understanding, how to explain the superhuman lucidity of all his
10:05thoughts and words about revealed truths and similarly when wonder
10:13It takes hold of us when we read certain pages of Saint Augustine or Saint Thomas Aquinas.
10:20Whether we're talking about Siena or Saint Teresa, we must attribute so much truth and beauty simply to the virtue of faith.
10:28that is, to the ratio fide ilustrata that is exercised in them when they write not for that divine truth and
10:40that celestial beauty that comes from their feathers, only the gift of science, understanding, and wisdom
10:48The gifts of the Holy Spirit are reason enough to write, for with such high and continuous inspiration
10:57These saints were not moved by grace according to the rule of reason illuminated by faith, but rather they were
11:04moved directly by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, in a superhuman and divine way
11:27and
11:29and