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The Church is sent to announce, bear
witness, make present and spread the mystery of the
communion of the Holy Trinity (the topic of the next
article): All of us who have
received one and the same Spirit, that is, the Holy
Spirit, are in a sense blended together with one another and
with God. For if Christ, together with the Father’s and
his own Spirit, comes to dwell in each of us, though
we are many, still the Spirit is one and undivided.
He binds together the spirits of each and every one of
us,... and makes all appear as one in him. For just as the
power of Christ’s sacred flesh unites those in whom it
dwells into one body, I think that in the same way the one
and undivided Spirit of God, who dwells in all,
leads all into spiritual unity.’33
739 Because the Holy Spirit is the anointing of Christ, it
is Christ who, as the head of the Body, pours out the Spirit
among his 1076 members to nourish, heal, and organize
them in their mutual functions, to give them life, send them
to bear witness, and associate them to his
self—offering to the Father and to his intercession for
the whole world. Through the Church’s sacraments,
Christ communicates his Holy and sanctifying Spirit to the
members of his Body. 740 These
‘mighty works of God’, offered to believers in the
sacraments of the Church, bear their fruit in the new
life in Christ, according to the Spirit.
741 ‘The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do
not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself
intercedes with sighs too deep for words.”34 The Holy
Spirit, the artisan of God’s works, is the master of
prayer. (This will be the topic of Part Four.) 742 ‘Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”’ (Gal 4:6).
always sends his Spirit: their mission is
conjoined and inseparable. 744 In the fullness of time the Holy Spirit completes
in Mary all the prep
Holy Spirit in her, the Father gives the
world Emmanuel, ‘God-with-us’
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