World Religion: What are the 12 fruits of the Holy Spirit?

Most Christians are familiar with the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord and fortitude. These gifts, granted to Christians at their baptism and perfected in the Sacrament of Confirmation, are like virtues: they make the person who possesses them willing to make the right choices and do the right thing.

How do the fruits of the Holy Ghost differ from the gifts of the Holy Ghost?
If the gifts of the Holy Spirit are like virtues, the fruits of the Holy Spirit are the actions that these virtues produce. Driven by the Holy Spirit, through the gifts of the Holy Spirit we bear fruit in the form of moral action. In other words, the fruits of the Holy Spirit are works that we can do only with the help of the Holy Spirit. The presence of these fruits is an indication that the Holy Spirit dwells in the Christian believer.

Where are the fruits of the Holy Spirit found in the Bible?
St. Paul, in the Letter to the Galatians (5:22), lists the fruits of the Holy Spirit. There are two different versions of the text. A shorter version, commonly used today in both Catholic and Protestant Bibles, lists nine fruits of the Holy Spirit; the longer version, which Saint Jerome used in his Latin translation of the Bible known as the Vulgate, includes three more. The Vulgate is the official text of the Bible that the Catholic Church uses; for this reason, the Catholic Church has always referred to the 12 fruits of the Holy Spirit.

The 12 fruits of the Holy Spirit
The 12 fruits are charity (or love), joy, peace, patience, kindness (or kindness), goodness, long-suffering (or long-suffering), sweetness (or sweetness), faith, modesty, continence (or self-control), and chastity. (Long-suffering, modesty and chastity are the three fruits that are found only in the longest version of the text).

Charity (or love)

Charity is the love of God and neighbor, without any thought of receiving something in return. However, it is not a "warm and confused" feeling; charity is expressed in concrete actions towards God and our fellow men.

Enjoyment

Joy is not emotional, in the sense that we commonly think of joy; rather, it is the state of being undisturbed by negative things in life.

Peace

Peace is a tranquility in our soul that derives from entrusting ourselves to God. Instead of being anxious about the future, Christians, through the suggestion of the Holy Spirit, trust that God will provide them.

Patience

Patience is the ability to endure other people's imperfections, through the knowledge of our own imperfections and our need for mercy and forgiveness of God.

Kindness (or kindness)

Kindness is the will to give to others above and beyond what we possess.

Goodness

Goodness is the avoidance of evil and the embrace of what is right, even at the expense of earthly fame and fortune.

Long-suffering (or prolonged suffering)

Long-suffering is patience under provocation. While patience is correctly directed towards the faults of others, being long-suffering means peacefully enduring the attacks of others.

Sweetness (or sweetness)

Being meek in behavior means being lenient rather than angry, kind rather than vindictive. The kind person is mild; like Christ himself, who said that "I am kind and humble in heart" (Matthew 11:29) does not insist on having his own way, but gives to others for the good of the Kingdom of God.

Fede

Faith, as the fruit of the Holy Spirit, means to live our life always according to the will of God.

Modesty

Being modest means humiliating yourself, recognizing that your successes, achievements, talents or merits are not truly yours, but gifts of God.

Continence

Continence is self-control or temperance. It does not mean denying yourself what you need or even necessarily what you want (as long as what you want is something good); rather, it is the exercise of moderation in all things.

Chastity

Chastity is the submission of physical desire to right reason, subjugating it to one's spiritual nature. Chastity means indulging in our physical desires only in the appropriate contexts, for example by engaging in sexual activities only within marriage.