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If you're looking for a free way to start discovering your charisms (spiritual gifts), you're in the right place. Here's what you can do today at no cost — and a clear look at what a full, personalized assessment adds when you're ready for it.
Yes — and in fact, more of what we make is free than isn't. Many of the spiritual gifts quizzes you'll find online are free but were written for Protestant ministries, on different theological foundations and with different gift lists. Many are also very thin in content and don't give you much support, if any, in embarking on a real charism discernment journey, pointing out likely charisms after just a few questions or simply giving you a list of names with no context.
We think the first steps of that discernment should be open to anyone, whether or not they ever spend a dollar with us. So here's what we provide totally free.
For a lot of people, the free guide plus time in prayer is enough to start noticing a gift or two. But the assessment we offer serves a real need for something we like to call objective perspective.
A free quiz and a guide might help you learn. But the charism assessment gives you an objective perspective: it evaluates your answers against all 24 charisms and provides you with a personalized PDF report ranking the gifts you're most likely to have, with clear and detailed next steps for each. It takes about 20 minutes, your results come instantly, and the assessment will auto-adapt to your age, vocation, and baptismal status to help you get the most helpful questions and accurate answers for your unique situation.
The assessment costs $9 and we're happy to be transparent about why: the assessment software and personalized reporting are proprietary tools that take real, ongoing investment to build and maintain — and $9 is a fraction of what Catholic charism discernment has historically cost, which was usually a workshop program priced far higher. The free resources above are real and complete in themselves; the $9 simply buys you a personalized navigation tool through the 24 possibilities.
Read the guide, take the quiz, come to a call. When you want a personalized read on your most likely gifts, the assessment is there.
Yes. The Upper Room Quiz, the guide to the 24 charisms, the monthly live call, and the podcast are all free. The full personalized assessment costs $9 because of the software and reporting behind it — but nothing stops you from starting your discernment journey for free today.
The free quiz and guide help you learn and reflect. The assessment gives you a personalized, ranked report on your most likely charisms out of all 24 — an objective starting point that saves you from guessing.
Much of what we offer is free on purpose. The assessment is priced at $9 because building and maintaining the testing and reporting tools takes real investment, and because keeping it affordable matters more to us than making it free — the historic alternative for Catholics cost far more.
The Church teaches that every baptized person has charisms and that discerning them is necessary (CCC 799–801). A quiz doesn't replace that discernment — it gives you an approachable first step toward gifts the Church has always taught you have. Often we struggle to be clear about our own aptitudes enough to consider the right gifts from the beginning, and a quiz or assessment is a great tool to help you begin your discernment journey with accuracy.
Want your whole parish, staff, or ministry team to discover their gifts together? We work with parishes and dioceses at every scale — start with our parish programs or tools for organizations.