Discovering your unique Spiritual Gifts can make involvement in certain councils, ministries or events more fulfilling as they align with your strengths. Following are suggestions to pair your gifts with opportunities where you can truly shine. Remember, every volunteer effort is valuable, so feel free to explore and find where you feel most at home and can make the greatest impact!
Administration. Excels at planning, managing people, resources and/or time; has an innate sense of how an organization can be run efficiently and effectively.
Craftsmanship. Extraordinarily gifted in working with their hands. Excels in making tangible objects, whether constructed of cloth, wood, metals or paint and recognize that they do so for the glory of God.
Creativity. Ordinarily artistic, whether in the written word or in conventional art or music; energized when they realize they are serving God by embracing their creative nature. Naturally innovative and able to “think outside the box;” understand they share in God’s creative power.
Discernment. Listens to the movements of the Holy Spirit in both their own lives and others’, and thus can assist people on their faith journey by listening, companioning and recognizing their strengths or spiritual gifts. Have the ability to get to the heart of the matter.
Encouragement. Recognize their role as motivating others to live practical Christianity. In essence, they strengthen fellow Christians in their spiritual growth by supporting them as they live their faith and by exhorting them to trust in God’s providence.
Evangelism. Shares his or her faith with the express purpose of leading others closer to God. Usually, this takes the form of sharing the truth of the Gospel in a meaningful way to challenge, strengthen, or overcome obstacles to faith.
Giving. Promote God’s will by providing for the needs of others. They earnestly believe and live the principles of stewardship, primarily caring for the poor and sharing the blessings God has given are both a privilege and a responsibility.
Healing. Manifested by restoring people to wholeness, whether spiritual, emotional, relational or physical. People with this gift comfort the broken, and recognize themselves as agents of God’s healing grace.
Hospitality. Make those around them feel welcome because they see Christ in the stranger. Facilitate others’ feelings of belonging and help them form deep relationships.
Intercession. Deeply know that God answers prayers and actively prays on behalf of others.
Knowledge. Learned understanding of the Catholic faith, which is used to serve the Church and her people. Hunger for learning about Scripture and Magisterial teaching, and easily understand them.
Leadership. Innate ability to create a vision and motivate others to complete it. Provides direction and empowers those around them to use their gifts for the benefit of the community.
Piety. Respect for things pertaining to God, exemplified by strong devotions to Jesus Christ present in the Eucharist, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and by full, active participation in the sacramental life of the Church.
Prophecy. Experts in the truth; instinctively know what is true and will defend it. They will not shy away from defending what has been revealed by God’s truth, nor urging others to change behaviors to help them live in right relationship with God.
Service. Cheerfully accomplishes practical or necessary tasks in support of others. Completely understands the loving service we are called to as disciples of Christ and serves others as Christ commanded, not for recognition, but because they see value in supporting the ministries of the community. Often comfortable working behind the scenes, they are truly the hands of Christ.
Teaching. Convey Gospel truth in ways others can easily understand. Not only do they communicate effectively, but they can help others apply the faith in practical ways, and thoroughly enjoy doing so.
Wisdom. Intuitive application of spiritual truth, not learned, and this application is specific to particular situations: The answers to problems are discerned for a given situation.
Witness. Being an example of Christian life, may be accomplished by word or deed. A God-given understanding that a person’s whole life must reflect his or her faith.
