YOUCAT Question n. 79 - Part I. Did Jesus have a soul, a mind, and a body just as we do?
(Youcat
answer) 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 470)
Because "human nature was assumed, not absorbed" (GS 22 § 2), in the
mysterious union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of
centuries to confess the full reality of Christ's human soul, with its
operations of intellect and will, and of his human body. In parallel fashion,
she had to recall on each occasion that Christ's human nature belongs, as his
own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it. Everything that
Christ is and does in this nature derives from "one of the Trinity".
The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal mode of
existence in the Trinity. In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly
the divine ways of the Trinity (Cf. Jn
14:9-10): The Son of God … worked with human hands; he thought with a human
mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved. Born of the
Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except
sin (GS 22 § 2).
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 471) Apollinaire’s
of Laodicea asserted that in Christ the divine Word had replaced the soul or
spirit. Against this error the Church confessed that the eternal Son also
assumed a rational, human soul (Cf. Damascus 1: DS 149).
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