The dove - a symbol of the Holy Spirit

THE HOLY SPIRIT

God's love in action

THE THIRD PERSON OF THE BLESSED TRINITY

He is a Person, distinct from the Father and the Son.

He is God and consubstantial* with the Father and the Son.

He is God, one and equal with the Father and the Son, of the same substance and also of the same nature.

He proceeds eternally from both (God the Father and God the Son) as from one principle and through one spiration*.

 

“For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God” 1Cor:2-10


 Catechism of the Catholic Church

CHAPTER THREE
"I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT"

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."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."

 

Catechism of the Catholic Church

ARTICLE 8
"I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT"

687 "No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God." Now God's Spirit, who reveals God, makes known to us Christ, his Word, his living Utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of himself. The Spirit who "has spoken through the prophets" makes us hear the Father's Word, but we do not hear the Spirit himself. We know him only in the movement by which he reveals the Word to us and disposes us to welcome him in faith. The Spirit of truth who "unveils" Christ to us "will not speak on his own." Such properly divine self-effacement explains why "the world cannot receive [him], because it neither sees him nor knows him," while those who believe in Christ know the Spirit because he dwells with them.

 

Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit:

  • Wisdom

  • Understanding

  • Knowledge

  • Counsel

  • Fortitude

  • Piety

  • Fear of God

 

Fruits of the Holy Spirit

  • Charity

  • Joy

  • Peace

  • patience

  • kindness

  • goodness

  • generosity

  • gentleness

  • faithfulness

  • modesty

  • self-control

  • chastity

 

 

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Prayer To The Holy Spirit

Come, Holy Spirit

 

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of Your Divine love.

Send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created,

And You shall renew the face of the earth.

 

Let us pray.  O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit, instructed the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Spirit, we

 may be truly wise and ever rejoice in His consolation, we ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

 

 

Names synonymous with the Holy Spirit include: Paraclete (Consoler), the Helper, the Spirit, Spirit of Truth, Holy Ghost, Spirit of God, the Advocate and the Spirit of the Lord.

Symbols of the Holy Spirit: water, anointing, fire, cloud and light, the seal, the hand, the finger and the dove.

 

*notes:

spiration - procession

consubstantial - the same in substance or essence

 

Sources:

St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica. Second and Revised Edition, 1920.

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