What exactly is the holy spirit?

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is it like the force in star wars? or more like chi and energy in eastern thoughts or none what I mentioned. The bible tells us to be filled with the holy spirit so how can we get more?
 
Can we just post you a link to the relevant CCC passage and call it good?
 
It’s definitely not like the force in Star Wars.

We get more of the HS through praying and remaining in a state of Grace, receiving the Eucharist, and asking for the Holy Spirit to come to us.
 
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Holy Trinity, so He is God. No, He is not just a “force” or “energy.”

As for how we are filled with the Spirit? The Catechism tells us this:
688 The Church, a communion living in the faith of the apostles which she transmits, is the place where we know the Holy Spirit:
  • in the Scriptures he inspired;
  • in the Tradition, to which the Church Fathers are always timely witnesses;
  • in the Church’s Magisterium, which he assists;
  • in the sacramental liturgy, through its words and symbols, in which the Holy Spirit puts us into communion with Christ;
  • in prayer, wherein he intercedes for us;
  • in the charisms and ministries by which the Church is built up;
  • in the signs of apostolic and missionary life;
  • in the witness of saints through whom he manifests his holiness and continues the work of salvation.
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so when we are confirmed and receive the holy spirit, its receiving God into our spiritual souls? I also heard somewhere its like a mark of ownership that God puts on us
 
The Holy Spirit - Translated - from Hebrew and Greek …literally means…

" The Breath of God "

Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit, and Hes saying it is like wind.
When you get into the Greek behind that,
the Greek word is pneuma, which again means
“a current of air,” “breath,” or a "breeze, "
both the Hebrew and the Greek word are talking about breath.
Its talking about wind.
 
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The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity.

As the third person of the Trinity, he is God, along with the Father and the Son who are also God.

However, the Holy Spirit is not the Father or the Son, nor is the Father the Son or the Holy Spirit, nor is the Son the Father or the Holy Spirit. They are three distinct persons (hypostases), yet they all exist as one being (ousia) whom we know as God or Yahweh.

He is equal to the Father and Son in every way in omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscient. The Holy Spirit finds his source in the Father, and is eternally spirated from the Father through the Son.

When we are baptized, we receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and when we are confirmed, these gifts are strengthened.

Since the Holy Spirit is God, we worship him alongside the Father and the Son who are also God. We do not worship him any less or anymore than the Father or the Son, we all worship the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit equally for all are equally God.
 
The Son is the Word; the thought of God about Himself, so perfect and complete it is a Divine Person.

The Holy Spirit is the love that the Father has for the Son and the Son has for the Father, so perfect and complete that it is a Divine Person.

Intellect (Thought)
Love (Will)

No potency; pure being and act.
 
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To put it basically, the Father and the Son love each other so fully that it produces another Person: the Holy Spirit.
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I have never heard that the Holy Spirit is a product of the love between Father and Son. What is your source for this?
 
imo, Trinity is a way of saying, [ God, the FIRST FAMILY ]
All about love relationships
 
The Holy Spirit is God

God the Father, God the Son in Jesus, God the Holy Spirit.

St Patrick would explain this Trinity using a shamrock, one stem with three leaves
 
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is it like the force in star wars? or more like chi and energy in eastern thoughts or none what I mentioned. The bible tells us to be filled with the holy spirit so how can we get more?
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I try to explain this in my own words to make it easier to understand. In Christianity, basically the Holy Spirit is another name for God, who is the third person in the Trinity.

We say that we can be in communion with God, allowing God to ‘merge’ in us - we are not God but God can be within us.

The Holy Spirit dwells in us if we allow Him. Scripture says our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

So when God dwells in you, that is a power within you.

That’s how the Holy Spirit does to a person who is Spirit filled.

What power will that be? Usually it is the power to overcome sins or that leads one to overcome sins.

What happens when we overcome sins? We rule out the effect of sin on us, which is the separation of us and God, thus if sin is overcome, we become closer to God. We become more holy.

Thus to become holy and closer to God is often the work of God (Holy Spirit) Himself rather than by our own strength, except that God needs our permission, our will and our choice for it to happen.

God bless.
 
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I appreciate that because posting things you’ve “heard” is a great way to spread fake news.
 
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I have never heard that the Holy Spirit is a product of the love between Father and Son. What is your source for this?
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I don’t know if he originated the idea, but you can find it as far back in St. Augustine’s treatise on the Trinity:
“Through Him [the Holy Spirit] both are joined together; through Him [the Holy Spirit] the begotten [the Son] is loved by the begetter [the Father], and in turn loves Him who begot Him;”
—St. Augustine, De Trinitatis, Book VI, Chapter 5
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This is a good question for reflection that ought not be too quickly dismissed.
I like to think in terms of St John of the Cross: Living Flame of Love.

O living flame of love
that tenderly wounds my soul
in its deepest center! Since
now you are not oppressive,
now consummate! if it be your will:
tear through the veil of this sweet encounter!

This flame of love is the Spirit of its Bridegroom, who is the Holy Spirit. The soul feels him within
itself not only as a fire that has consumed and transformed it but as a fire that burns and flares within it, as I mentioned. And that flame, every time it flares up, bathes the soul in glory and refreshes it with the quality of divine life.
 
St Augustine.

It’s also accepted language in theology to describe both the Son as the thought of God about Himself, and the Holy Spirit as the love of God for Himself, between the Father and Son.

"…the mind, and the knowledge by which it knows itself, and the love by which it loves itself”

 
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Are you implying the Holy Spirit finds his source between the Father and Son, so as to have a double source? If so, that’s heresy. The Holy Spirit finds his source in the Father through the Son as a single spiration, not double.
 
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The Holy Spirit - Translated - from Hebrew and Greek …literally means…

" The Breath of God "
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Respectfully opinion only. Pondering on for a long long time, questioning, examining asking in prayer for knowledge and understanding of what is exactly the Holy Spirit?

Our Heavenly Father gives us the>> Breath of Life, Our Heavenly Father breathed into Adams nostrils, did he not?

We are all>> born from above>>> given the Breathe of our Spiritual Being, Life?

Our Heavenly Father is he not>> a Holy Spiritual Being, our very energy source, that gives us all the >>Spiritual breathe of Life?

Pondering on. read over over, many times all throughout the OT and in the NT, Where it is written>>our Heavenly Father tells us, >>I Will>> put >>My Spirit >Our Father Spiritual breathe of Life, he places within us? Within him/her etc does he not?

Born from above, is it not written>>I knew you before I placed you in your Mothers Womb? Our Fathers Spiritual breath of Life?

Written in Luke,>>>
Elizabeth Child while still within her womb, was filled with the >>Holy Spirit?
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Our Heavenly Father tells his prophet Jeremiah>>> I Will put my Spirit within your mouth Jeremiah to speak my Words, did he not?

Jesus tells us to>> Test all Spirits. now who are theses Spirits, you will know them by their fruits? Each one of us? Good vs not good? Flesh vs Spirit?

Our Fleshly being returns to the matter from which it came, is buried, rots, dies, does it not?

But the Spiritual Being within, returns to that from which it came, God Breathe, is this what it means to be >>born from above?

Why Jesus tell us to >>Know Thyself? Look within? Flesh vs Spirit? are always opposed or at war with each other, within us?

Little St Therese child of Jesus, her short sayings tells us>>
Become like a little child, does one become Spiritual Mature?

Pondering on, question:
Jesus walk in the flesh, but Jesus fully lived in the Spirit, did he not?

Written >Question > Jesus tells us no flesh and blood enters the Kingdom, so what enters the Kingdom?

Is it our Spiritual Being, God breathed, is this what it means to be>>> born from above? Return to Me and I Will return to you?

Question, Our Loving Father is he not a Infinite Eternal>>> Holy Spiritual Being >>who never dies?

Jesus teaches us all, The Lords Prayer >it begins with > Our Father >? Our Spiritual Heavenly Father,> who gives breathe to> >born from above? Return to Me and I will return to you? Unity? Oneness?

Physical Being vs Spiritual Being?
Born of Earthy Parents in the flesh vs Born from above? Our Spiritual Father, gives Breathe, birth to our Spiritual Eternal Life?

Written>>>>>>>>>>I am Holy, thou art to be Holy also<<<<<Test all Spirits?

Prodigal son story?

So if Jesus tells us in what is written >>No, Flesh and Blood enters the Kingdom, what then enters the Kingdom of our Heavenly Father?

Stand to be corrected how one learns. Interesting is all.
Peace. 🙂
 
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