Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 79 - Part III.

YOUCAT Question n. 79 - Part III. Did Jesus have a soul, a mind, and a body just as we do?

(Youcat answer - repeated) Yes. Jesus “worked with human hands, he thought with a human mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved” (Second Vatican Council, GS 22, 2).       

A deepening through CCC

(CCC 474) By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal (Cf. Mk 8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34; 14:18-20, 26-30). What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal (Cf. Mk 13:32, Acts 1:7). (CCC 476) Since the Word became flesh in assuming a true humanity, Christ's body was finite (Cf. Council of the Lateran (649): DS 504). Therefore the human face of Jesus can be portrayed; at the seventh ecumenical council (Nicaea II in 787) the Church recognized its representation in holy images to be legitimate (Cf. Gal 3:1; cf. Council of Nicaea II (787): DS 600-603).     

Reflecting and meditating 

(Youcat comment) The humanity of Jesus is complete and includes also the fact that Jesus possessed a soul and developed psychologically and spiritually. In this soul dwelled his human identity and his special self-consciousness. Jesus knew about his unity with his heavenly Father in the Holy Spirit, by whom he allowed himself to be guided in every situation of his life.

(CCC Comment)

(CCC 475) Similarly, at the sixth ecumenical council, Constantinople III in 681, the Church confessed that Christ possesses two wills and two natural operations, divine and human. They are not opposed to each other, but co-operate in such a way that the Word made flesh willed humanly in obedience to his Father all that he had decided divinely with the Father and the Holy Spirit for our salvation (Cf. Council of Constantinople III (681): DS 556-559). Christ's human will "does not resist or oppose but rather submits to his divine and almighty will” (Council of Constantinople III: DS 556).   

(The next question is: Why is Mary a Virgin?)