Holy Spirit
The Modern Catholic Dictionary says of that the Holy Spirit
is “the third person of the Holy Trinity, who is distinct from the Father
and the Son but one in being, coequal, and coeternal with them, because,
like them, he is in the fullest sense God. The Holy Spirit proceeds not
only from the Father but also from the Son as from a single principle,
through what is called a single spiration. He is the personal infinite term
of the eternal act of mutual love of the Father and Son, hence his name of
Spirit, as the issue or term of God’s eternal love or act of will. He is
also called the Spirit of Truth, the Creator Spirit, the Sanctifier, as the
gifts of revelation, of creation (and recreation), and of sanctification are
the outpourings of God’s love, and therefore appropriated to the Spirit of
Love, though whatever God does outside the Trinity (in the world of
creatures) belongs to the common or united action of the three divine
persons. He is called Dove, because it was in this form that he descended
visibly upon Christ in the Jordan (Mark 1:10).” |
