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263 The mission of the Holy Spirit,
sent by the Father in the name of the Son Un 14:26) and by
the Son ‘from the Father’ Un 15:26), reveals that,
with them, the Spirit is one and the same God. ‘With
the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glor~fied’
(Nicene Creed). 264 ‘The Holy Spirit proceedsfrom the Father
as thefirst principle and, by the eternal g~fl of this to
the Son,from the communion of both the Father and the
Son’ (St Augustine, De Trin. i~, 26, 47: PL 42,
1095). 265 By the grace of Baptism ‘in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit’, we are
called to share in the life of the Blessed Trinity, here
on earth in the obscurity offaith, and after death in
eternal light (cf. Paul VI, CPG §9). 266 ‘Now this is the Catho licfaith: We worship
one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity, without
either confusing the persons or dividing the substance;for
the person of the Father is one, the Son’s is another,
the Holy Spirit’s another; but the Godhead of the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit is one, their glory equal, their
majesty coeternal’ (Athanasian Creed: DS 75; ND 16). 267 Inseparable in what they are, the divine
persons are also inseparable in what they do. But within the
single divine operation each shows forth what is proper to
him in the Trinity, especially in the divine missions of the
Son’s Incarnation and the g~ft of the Holy Spirit. Of all the divine attributes, only God’s
omnipotence is named ~n the Creed: to confess this power has
great bearing on our lives. 222 We believe that his
might is universal, for God who created everying also
rules everything and can do everything. God’s power is
kving, for he is our Father, and mysterious, for only
faith can dis-. ï it when it ‘is made perfect
in weakness’.’°3 Le
does whatever he pleases”°4 ~69 The Holy Scriptures repeatedly confess the
universal power of
1ie ‘strong and mighty’ one. If
God is almighty ‘in heaven and on
Lrth’, it is because he made them.’°5
Nothing is impossible with )d, who
disposes his works according to his will.b06 He is the
Drd of the universe, whose order he established and
which ~ns wholly subject to him and at his disposal. He is
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