What are the different Categories of Charismatic Graces?

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St. Paul enumerates 9 types of charismatic grace (gratia gratis data) in I Corinthians 12:8-10:

  1. "word of wisdom"
  2. "word of knowledge"
  3. "faith"
  4. "grace of healing in one Spirit"
  5. "working of miracles"
  6. "prophecy"
  7. "discerning of spirits"
  8. "diverse kinds of tongues"
  9. "interpretation of speeches"

They are categorized in Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.'s Grace ch. 4, where he commentates on St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica I-II q. 111 a. 4 ("Whether gratuitous grace is rightly divided by the Apostle [in I Corinthians 12:8-10]?"):

division of "gratia gratis data"

However, St. Paul's list is not exhaustive (cf. pp. 796-802, PDF pp. 419-422, of Teología de la Perfección Cristiana by Antonio Royo Marín, O.P.).

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