Friday, January 15, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 113 - Part I.
(Youcat
answer) To believe in the Holy Spirit means to worship him as God just like the
Father and the Son. It means to believe that the Holy Spirit comes into our
hearts so that we as children of God might know our Father in heaven. Moved by
God’s Spirit, we can change the face of the earth.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 683 a) "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the
Holy Spirit" (1 Cor 12:3). "God has sent the Spirit of his Son into
our hearts, crying, 'Abba!
Father!"' (Gal 4:6). 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.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
Before his death, Jesus
promised his disciples that he would send them “another Counselor” (Jn 14:16)
when he was no longer with them. Then when the Holy Spirit was poured out upon
the disciples of the original Church, they learned what Jesus had meant. They
experienced a deep assurance and joy in their faith and received particular
charisms; in other words, they could prophesy, heal, and work miracles. To this
day there are people in the Church who possess such gifts and have these
experiences.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 683 b) 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 (St. Irenaeus, Dem. Ap. 7: SCh 62, 41-42).
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