In the Annunciation, Our Lady receives a message from the angel Gabriel announcing that she is to have a son through the Holy Spirit. She immediately accepts. We learn from her to be docile to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, who acts in us through his seven gifts. In this meditation we consider how:

• There are seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, which we received in Baptism
• The gifts differ from the virtues
• The gifts were first announced in the prophecy of Isaiah
• The gifts help us to respond to the action of the Holy Spirit in our soul
• Each one of the seven gifts helps us in a particular way