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From the CCC:

Catechism of the Catholic Church

CHAPTER THREE:
I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

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"No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit."1 "God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’"2 This knowledge of faith is possible only in the Holy Spirit: to be in touch with Christ, we must first have been touched by the Holy Spirit. He comes to meet us and kindles faith in us. By virtue of our Baptism, the first sacrament of the faith, the Holy Spirit in the Church communicates to us, intimately and personally, the life that originates in the Father and is offered to us in the Son.

Baptism gives us the grace of new birth in God the Father, through his Son, in the Holy Spirit. For those who bear God’s Spirit are led to the Word, that is, to the Son, and the Son presents them to the Father, and the Father confers incorruptibility on them. And it is impossible to see God’s Son without the Spirit, and no one can approach the Father without the Son, for the knowledge of the Father is the Son, and the knowledge of God’s Son is obtained through the Holy Spirit.3

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Through his grace, the Holy Spirit is the first to awaken faith in us and to communicate to us the new life, which is to "know the Father and the one whom he has sent, Jesus Christ."4 But the Spirit is the last of the persons of the Holy Trinity to be revealed. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, the Theologian, explains this progression in terms of the pedagogy of divine “condescension”:

The Old Testament proclaimed the Father clearly, but the Son more obscurely. The New Testament revealed the Son and gave us a glimpse of the divinity of the Spirit. Now the Spirit dwells among us and grants us a clearer vision of himself. It was not prudent, when the divinity of the Father had not yet been confessed, to proclaim the Son openly and, when the divinity of the Son was not yet admitted, to add the Holy Spirit as an extra burden, to speak somewhat daringly. . . . By advancing and progressing “from glory to glory,” the light of the Trinity will shine in ever more brilliant rays.5

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To believe in the Holy Spirit is to profess that the Holy Spirit is one of the persons of the Holy Trinity, consubstantial with the Father and the Son: "with the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified."6 For this reason, the divine mystery of the Holy Spirit was already treated in the context of Trinitarian “theology.” Here, however, we have to do with the Holy Spirit only in the divine “economy.”

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The Holy Spirit is at work with the Father and the Son from the beginning to the completion of the plan for our salvation. But in these “end times,” ushered in by the Son’s redeeming Incarnation, the Spirit is revealed and given, recognized and welcomed as a person. Now can this divine plan, accomplished in Christ, the firstborn and head of the new creation, be embodied in mankind by the outpouring of the Spirit: as the Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

Notes

1 Cor 12:3.

Gal 4:6.

St. Irenæus, Dem. ap. 7: SCh 62, 41-42.

Jn 17:3.

St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio theol., 5, 26 (= Oratio 31, 26): PG 36, 161-163.

Nicene Creed; see above, par. 465.
 
Truth_Seeker123 said:
What does the Catechism say about the Holy Spirit?
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Since you didn’t say which catechism, this from Luther’s Small Catechism, the third article of the Apostle’s Creed.
The Third Article.
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Of Sanctification.
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I believe in the Holy Ghost; one holy catholic Church, the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
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What does this mean?–Answer.
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I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord, or come to Him; but the Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel, enlightened me with His gifts, sanctified and kept me in the true faith; even as He calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies the whole Christian Church on earth, and keeps it with Jesus Christ in the one true faith; in which Christian Church He forgives daily and richly all sins to me and all believers, and at the last day will raise up me and all the dead, and will give to me and to all believers in Christ everlasting life. This is most certainly true.
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Jon
 
Really, this topic is too big for this forum. We have not touched on the Spirit in Scriptures and the writing and understanding of the Bible. We have not touched on the precession of the Spirit and how that is seen by the Church. Too much to talk about. WAY too much./
 
What does the Catechism have to say about cheese? I, like Chesterton, am concerned about the silence on the subject of cheese. And yes Jon, I will accept things in the Lutheran Catechism as well in this matter.

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Would it not be easier to read the Catechism than to ask such questions, if you are truly interested?
 
Nine_Two said:
Would it not be easier to read the Catechism than to ask such questions, if you are truly interested?
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Do I make you angry? The reason I asked is because, every time I make a thread you only respond to bash it.
 
Truth_Seeker123 said:
You allowed me to figure something out and no.

Mark 13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
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I have no idea what you are referring to. What did I help you figure out? The silence on the subject of cheese?

God bless
 
Roman_Catholic said:
Pity. I thought we were getting somewhere :o…

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lol That’s funny. Would you like to help me figure out something? I’m all ears, you can try. You want my email? Seriously, I take the Word of God VERY serious.
 
Truth_Seeker123 said:
lol That’s funny. Would you like to help me figure out something? I’m all ears, you can try. You want my email? Seriously, I take the Word of God VERY serious.
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I thought I already helped you figure something out?
Truth Seeker:
You allowed me to figure something out and no.
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And I take Christ seriously as well.

God bless
 
To the OP:

I have seen from a variety of your threads that you search a great many websites, and “read” what they have to say. You ask us all to read everything that you post.

Why don’t you read the Catechism of the Catholic Church? After all it is available, and searchable on a website.

scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

or

vatican.va/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm

I mean, fair is fair. You want us to read the material you find in its entirety, and the websites you find it on. Why not read a Catholic site that has the Catechism?

If you can find all of these obscure things about the Church, then you should be capable of finding the Catechism of the Catholic Church online right?

Just wondering.
 
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