By Ambroise Gardeil, O.P. | Introduction by Romanus Cessario, O.P.

The Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Dominican Saints introduces a series of saints from the Order of Preachers and illustrates how each embodies a particular beatitude and Gift of the Holy Spirit. On display is the spirited fortitude of St. Catherine de Ricci; the exceptional prudence of St. Antoninus; and the extraordinary wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas. As Romanus Cessario, O.P., states in the Introduction: “Dominican saints characteristically labor without toil. They demonstrate the connaturality of holiness, that is, they exhibit the way that the elevated life of grace attaches itself to our human nature and capacities.” 

Educating both the mind and the heart, Gardeil explains the core teachings of Thomistic moral theology and invites a wholehearted recognition of the Holy Spirit’s movements in the life of the Church and the individual.

Our heart is actuated and renewed by the action of the Holy Spirit who enlightens our whole interior world, our truth, love, hope, justice, passions, all, that God may reign over all. (Ambroise Gardeil, O.P.)

Ambroise Gardeil, O.P. (1859–1931) was a French Dominican friar and a key contributor to the renewal of Thomism in the nineteenth century. Co-founder of the Revue Thomiste journal, Gardeil also served as teacher and mentor to such luminaries of Thomistic thought as Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange and Martin Gillet. 

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Paperback: 144pp.

ISBN: 978-1944418250