Monday, January 25, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 116 - Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) Already in the Old Covenant God filled men and women with
the Spirit, so that they lifted up their voices for God, spoke in his name, and
prepared the people for the coming of the Messiah.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 685) 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" (Nicene Creed; see above, par. 465). 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."
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
In the Old Covenant God
sought out men and women who were willing to let him use them to console, lead,
and admonish his people. It was the Spirit of God who spoke through the mouth
of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and other prophets. John the Baptist, the last of
these prophets, not only foresaw the coming of the Messiah. He also met him and
proclaimed him as the liberator from the power of sin.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 686) 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.
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