In this article we present 5 data that every Catholic must know about the Holy Spirit to celebrate in the best way the solemnity of Pentecost, a liturgical party that is celebrated this Sunday and ends Easter time.
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Every year, 50 days after Resurrection of Jesus ChristCatholics celebrate Pentecost To commemorate the coming of Holy Spirit About Maria and The apostleswhich happened after the ascension of Christ.
The Bible narrates that with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the apostles received special gifts and filled with encouragement and strength to go out into the streets of Jerusalem and proclaim the good news to humanity.
To prepare ourselves properly for this liturgical party, we share the 5 data on the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is a person
The Holy Spirit is not a “thing” or a “what”, the Holy Spirit is a “he” and a “who”. He is the third person of the Holy Trinity, and although he may seem more mysterious than the father and the son, he is as person as they.
The Holy Spirit is God
That the Holy Spirit is the “third person of the Trinity” does not mean that it is inferior than the Father or the Son. The three people, including the Holy Spirit, are totally God and “have only one divinity, equal glory and Coeterna Majesty,” as the Athanasian creed says.
The Holy Spirit has always existed
Although we learn most things about God the Father and the Holy Spirit (as well as of God the Father and the Son) in the New Testament, he has always existed. God exists eternally in three people. So, when you read about God in the Old Testament, remember that these are the three people of the Trinity, including the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is received for the first time in baptism
The Holy Spirit can be active in the world of mysterious ways and that are not always understood. However, a person receives the Holy Spirit in a special way for the first time in baptism and is then strengthened in their gifts in confirmation.
Christians are temples of the Holy Spirit
Christians have the Holy Spirit that lives in them in a special way, and therefore, there are serious moral consequences, as St. Paul explains:
“They run away from prohibited sexual relations. Any other sin that someone commits is out of their body, but he who has those sexual relations sins against his own body, do not know that his body is a temple of the Holy Spirit they have received from God and that he is in you? They no longer belong to themselves. You have been bought at a very high price; they procure, then, that your bodies serve the glory of God.” (1 Cor 6: 18-20)
This article was originally published in ChurchPop On May 23, 2015 and has been updated for reprogramming.
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