YOUCAT Question n. 113 - Part III. What does it mean to say: I believe in the Holy Spirit?
(Youcat
answer - repeated) 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 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)
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 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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