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Thus the Church confesses, following the New Testament, one God and Father from whom all things are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and one Holy Spirit in whom all things are.258 It is above all the divine missions of the Sons Incarnation and the gift of the Holy Spirit that show forth the properties of the divine persons. 259 Being a work at once common and personal, the whole
persons, and their one divine nature. Hence
the whole Christian life is a communion with each of the
divine persons, without in any way separating them. Everyone
who glorifies the Father does so through the Son in the Holy
Spirit; everyone who follows Christ does so because the
Father draws him and the Spirit moves him.99
260 The ultimate end of the whole divine economy is the
entry of
But even now we are called to be a dwelling
for the Most Holy Trinity: If a man loves me,
says the Lord, he will keep my word, and my Father
will love him, and we will come to him, and make
establish myself in you, unmovable and
peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing
be able to trouble my peace or make me leave you, O my
unchanging God, but may each minute bring me more deeply
into your mystery! Grant my soul peace. Make it your heaven,
your beloved dwelling and the place of your rest. May I
never abandon you there, but may I be there, whole and
entire, completely vigilant in
action.°2 261 The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life. God alone can make it known to us by revealing himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 262 The Incarnation of Gods Son reveals that
God is the eternal Father and that the Son is consubstantial
with the Father, which means that, in the Father and with
the Father, the Son is one and the same God. |
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