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The Parish Family of Saint Therese of Lisieux has a wide variety of gifts. Please help us understand your seat at the table, your position on the team, your place in the Body of Christ for the upbuilding of His Chruch....
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The information below is paraphrased from the book "Fruitful Discipleship," by Sherry Weddell. This assessment is not meant to confirm the charisms (spiritual gifts) that you have, it simply begins the process and allows the parish to place you in areas of ministry that we have a good "hunch" you are already gifted in. For in-depth discernment of your charisms sign up for the "Called and Gifted" online program at the Catherine of Siena Institute here ----> https://siena.org/
Mercy:   Is hands-on, practical deeds that relieve suffering and restore dignity  |  Mercy not only alleviate physical suffering but also have an incredible ability to restore the dignity, hope, and sense of being loved by God to those who suffer  |  find personally serving the poor, the rejected, and marginalized to be a compelling privilege even when it is difficult  |  I once worked with a nurse who told me, “It’s very strange. I can just walk into a room where a patient is crawling the walls with fear, pain, or anxiety and they instantly calm down and relax into peace even though I haven’t had time to do anything yet. I’ve noticed that this doesn’t happen with all nurses.”  |  Their spiritual life will falter if they don’t also have a chance to work directly with those who suffer.
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Service:   Recognizing the gaps or unmet needs that prevent good things from happening, and by   personally doing whatever it takes to bridge the gap  |  have a kind of radar for the unmet needs around them and are personally motivated to respond in a hands-on way to meet those needs  |  They are typically self-starting and multi-talented, a jack-of-all-trades  |  They do not want to delegate; they make things happen by taking personal, hands-on action  |  because they are so capable and proactive, they are often moved quickly into leadership in voluntary organizations. As a result, people with a charism of Service can become over-committed in all the wrong places  |  The challenge for someone with this charism is discerning when and where to say “no.”
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Healing:   Through whom God cures illness and restores health when healing is unlikely to occur quickly or to happen at all  |  heal others physically and emotionally in ways that clearly transcend normal clinical outcomes  |  Healing will occur much faster than normal or where healing is not expected to occur at all. The healing does not have to be medically inexplicable to be the fruit of this charism  |  Healing needs some kind of contact with the person, preferably face-to-face, but sometimes over the phone or via Skype. That is one of the things that sets it apart from Intercessory Prayer.
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Hospitality:   Warmly welcoming and caring for those in need of food, shelter, and friendship  |  making a place for others as individuals and as a group  |  means by which God heals and strengthens individuals through the experience of Christian community  |  community. Someone with this gift has an amazing ability to create a warm, welcoming environment in which a person’s needs for    physical nurture, relational roots, and personal and spiritual companionship are met  |  A person or family with this charism might welcome many individuals, but they always see you.
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Craftsmanship:   Sacred or secular artistic creativity that beautifies and orders the physical world  |  The art created with this gift need not be explicitly religious for it to impact others for God’s purposes  |  power of this gift touches the whole of us and baptizes our imaginations and our senses  |  For those who are given this gift, creating beauty is a major form of prayer and a critical part of their spiritual life.
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Giving:   Cheerful channel of God’s provision by giving money and material goods with extraordinary generosity to those in need  |  Disciples with the charism of giving either are empowered to make money or find that money and other resources mysteriously come to them so that these things can be provided to others  |  They are confident that their own material needs will be met by God  |  People who struggle with belief in God’s love and care can have their entire spiritual worldview transformed by witnessing or being the recipients of dramatic acts of generosity. Witnessing this charism in action can be enormously thought-provoking for agnostics and atheists as well as those at any threshold of pre-discipleship.
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Missionary:  By effectively and joyfully using his or her charisms in a second culture  |  become quickly bored and frustrated in mono-cultural settings. They love the richness, color, and challenge of relating to and working with people from different cultures  |  In the twenty-first century, this charism could also be exercised by disciples who can relate fruitfully to skeptics and unbelievers saturated in post-modern assumptions  |  care passionately about living, relating, and speaking in ways that make the Gospel intelligible and credible to the people from a different culture  |  are intensely sensitive to the nuances of the culture in which they seek to be a witness of Jesus Christ.
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Prophecy: By communicating a word or call of God to individuals or a group through inspired words or actions  |  The charism of Prophecy can take many forms, including a prophetic exhortation that calls people to action; a “word of knowledge” or “word of wisdom” through which God reveals what he is doing (such as a healing) in the life of an individual or community; an interior vision (not an apparition) or prophetic actions through which God’s word to a community is communicated  |  A good deal of emotional and spiritual maturity and disinterested discipline is necessary for someone with this charism to exercise it fruitfully.
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Leadership:  Sharing a new and compelling vision of a better future with others and then directing the overall efforts of the group as they work together to make that vision a reality  |  People with a charism of Leadership contemplate the world about them, asking, “What can we do together to change things for the better?”  |  typically found new vision-centered groups or organizations  |  People often confuse the charisms of Leadership and Administration because they are both group-oriented gifts. The difference is that those with a charism of Leadership will come up with the original vision and gather a new group about that vision, while someone with the gift of Administration wants to coordinate a group’s efforts to implement an existing vision  |  Disciples given the gift of Leadership need people with the charism of Administration about them  |  There are two questions I always ask someone who is discerning a possible charism of Leadership: (1) Have you ever started a new mission-centered group or organization? (2) Has someone with a charism of Helps offered to help you carry out a vision?
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Helps:  By using his or her skills, talents, and charisms to enable other individuals to serve God and people more fruitfully  |  The people exercising this gift get their joy and satisfaction from assisting you  |  People with this gift tend to stand behind the person they are helping  |  typically drawn to people with a charism of Leadership  |  need to see how what they are doing is making a real difference in the life of the person they are seeking to help  |  Helps is all about assisting people who are trying to accomplish the mission for which God has anointed them.
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Administration: Planning and delegation, and by coordinating the resources and efforts of a group to accomplish a Kingdom purpose  |  love to lead a group to achieve a complicated task  |  They don’t necessarily come up with the original vision, but they are really effective at leading a group to implement the vision by planning, delegating, and then coordinating the efforts of a group  |  Delegation is their particular forte because they prefer to make things happen through the efforts of others. They can break up a complicated task and delegate different responsibilities to a number of different people while coordinating the efforts of the whole group. They are “make it happen” people who are especially energized and fruitful when asked to lead a group to make it happen  |  People like working with someone with a charism of Administration because they know it will be a positive,            low-stress experience: their time will not be wasted, their responsibilities will be clear, and the mission will be accomplished.
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Extraordinary Faith:  Radical trust in the love, power, and provision of God and an extraordinary freedom to act on that trust.  one of the first things we look for is a pattern of risk-taking for God’s purposes  |  For those with the charism, this kind of risk-taking is not           recklessness or carelessness  |  Where the average Christian sees a wall, the person of Extraordinary Faith sees an open door. The person with the charism of Extraordinary Faith often feels a spontaneous rush of confidence in God in the midst of an impossible situation  |  People with the charism of            Extraordinary Faith will often be found on the bleeding edge of mission  |  When you are around somebody with Extraordinary Faith, your own faith in the presence, love, and power of God will grow.
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Intercessory Prayer:  Sustained, intense prayer of a Christian for others as the means by which God’s love and deliverance reaches those in need  |  tend to see remarkable — even miraculous — answers to their prayers for others on a regular basis. They have a tremendous confidence that God hears and will answer their prayers. They find praying for others energizing  |  Such prayer is crucial to this work because it changes the spiritual atmosphere of a place or community. Intercessory prayer also fosters the spiritual openness of individuals, even those who just happen to “drop by” our parish.
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Wisdom:   Extraordinary insight that enables him or her to come up with original or creative solutions to specific problems and to make good decisions  |  Wisdom focuses on inspired, creative solutions to practical problems. Wisdom is all about the creative application of knowledge in order to better the lives of human beings and build the Kingdom of God  |  It is not enough for a Wisdom person that something simply be objectively true. It must also be applicable in a way that makes a significant difference in the lives of real people and brings glory to God  |  Wisdom is the gift of extraordinary problem-solving insight that is triggered by an encounter with and understanding of a real-life problem that cries out for a solution  |  One of the signs of this charism is that a deep understanding of negative realities doesn’t depress you but sparks your energy and creativity, because you know that contemplating a problem is the first step toward finding an elegant, transforming solution. You do not need an academic background to exercise this charism  |  People with this charism often find themselves sought out by those who want to talk over the issues and situations they are facing. People with this charism are often brilliant at diagnosis and prescription  |  Where the rest of us see chaos, they see patterns, and therefore possible causes — and therefore possible remedies  |  remedies. Disciples exercising a charism of Wisdom are usually able to sum up the situation in clear, illuminating language  |  The words “insight” and “clarity” are often used to describe them.
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Knowledge:   Channel of God’s truth through diligent, prayerful study and intellectual inquiry that enables us to better understand God, ourselves, and the universe  |  supernaturally empowered study  |  The foundational passion for those with a charism of Knowledge is intellectual wonder, and you can follow it freely into realms as diverse as philosophy, theology,          metaphysics, mathematics, or any of the other natural sciences  |  study is a major form of prayer  |  often end up in academic settings or perhaps involved with intellectually and culturally sophisticated apologetics  |  Someone with the charism of Knowledge can be enormously helpful working with intellectually oriented skeptics, agnostics, atheists, academics, and those for whom truth is the transcendental that will most readily lead them to encountering God. They can also help form disciples and apostles for mission in a skeptical world and in academic settings.
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Poverty:   Living a life of cheerful, voluntary simplicity or poverty in order to identify with Jesus and the poor  |  feel uncomfortable when they have too much stuff. They are attracted to a life uncluttered by possessions and focused in simplicity on God and neighbor  |  This is a pretty rare charism at the parish level, so individuals with this gift can feel isolated and at odds with the values of other Catholics around them.
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Music:   Writing or performing music for the delight of others and the praise of God  |  The music can be of any genre, played in a secular or religious setting, and still impact people and open them up to the presence of God  |  You do not have to be a professional or have had extensive training to have this charism.
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Writing:   Using words to create works of truth or beauty that reflect the fullness of human experience and bring glory to God  |  If writing is a charism, it will often feel like prayer or contemplation at the moment you are engaged in it and will be a major spiritual discipline for you.
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Pastoring:  Building Christian community by nurturing the relationships and long-term spiritual growth of a group  |  directed toward shepherding groups, not individuals  |  eagerly seeks to promote the long-term spiritual growth of individuals in and through Christian community  |  Gathering people into groups to grow is their methodology. If your parish doesn’t already have small Christian communities, someone with this gift will be eager to start them members. The charism of Pastoring is an important part of God’s provision for our situation because a single priest cannot possibly manage care of the souls of three thousand people by himself  |  prefers to work with groups that are small enough to know everyone in the group personally: twenty people, not two hundred.
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Teaching:   Enabling others to learn information and skills that help them reach their fullest spiritual and personal potential  |  live for the joy of witnessing the great “Aha!” moment when the learner they are working with grasps the implications of some new knowledge or skill  |  people who normally do not like a subject nor do well in it suddenly find it surprisingly interesting  |  They are always thinking how they can pass on their knowledge or skills to others.
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Evangelism:   Sharing the faith with others — baptized or not — in a way that draws them to intentionally follow Jesus  |  They are constantly asking, “Where are these individuals in their living relationship with God, and how can I help them move closer to Jesus and his Church?”  |  even unbelievers and skeptics can find talking about God with the evangelizer to be intriguing and compelling.  |  Consequently, most people with this gift are not much interested in insider ecclesial debates. They are too busy looking for ways to start spiritual conversations with friends — at work, at the gym, or over coffee or a couple of beers.  |  can be exercised in a giant gathering like World Youth Day or with one person in intimate conversation. The goal is the same: to give everyone a chance to respond to what Jesus has accomplished.
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Celibacy:   Most fulfilled and spiritually fruitful by remaining unmarried and celibate for the sake of Christ  |  For someone with this gift, a celibate life is not a void; it is not just the absence of marriage or romantic attachment. It is a positive call to a particular relational lifestyle that carries with it the freedom to take on unusual vocations or missions  |  Friendship is the primary kind of relational intimacy to which those with this gift are called  |  It is important for those with a charism of Celibacy to seriously contemplate the other charisms they have been given. Celibacy gives one freedom for something else, and that something else will be significantly shaped and colored by one’s other charisms  |  Celibacy calls us to live a life that would not make sense if God did not exist.
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Encouragement:  strengthening and healing individuals in remarkable ways through his or her presence and words  |  They never see a crowd; they see you in your uniqueness  |  Those listening to a preacher or teacher with this charism will feel as if he or she is speaking to them personally — even in the midst of a crowd  |  when working with a group they will still tune in to each individual member  |  They will be drawn to work or ministry that enables them to have extensive personal contact with individuals
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