4.  REVIEW

1. Re - Review

A.  Covenants

1. 1. • Exchange of persons

      • Family kinship bond

      • Oath-Swearing

        • Sacramentum in Latin -> Sacrament

B.  The Bible

1. 1. • Covenants in the Bible

        • God giving himself to his people

          • Asking for them - for us - to give ourselves back to Him

            • Adam - Marriage Covenant

            • Noah - Family Covenant

            • Abraham - Tribal Covenant

            • Moses - Nation Covenant

            • David - Kingdom Covenant

            • Jesus - Worldwide Church

            • Jesus - Final Consummation

C.  The Church

1. 1. • Found by and founded on the Person of Jesus Christ

      • The Source and Summit of our Faith:

        • The Holy Eucharist

          • The ultimate exchange of persons

            • Exchange between Christ and His Church -> us

          • This brings us to another aspect of The Covenant that we several weeks ago:

            • Covenants are supposed to be Life-Giving Unions

2. Who is The Holy Spirit

A.  The Mystery of The Blessed Trinity

2. 1. • The Blessed Trinity is the ultimate in Life-Giving Unions

      • Many have attempted to understand or describe the Blessed Trinity

        • Shamrock - St. Patrick

        • Water - Solid, Liquid, Gas

      • My favorite image

        • The family

          • The Husband pours out his love to his wife.

          • The wife receives that love and gives it back to the husband.

          • That love between them is so real, that 9-months later you may have to give it a name!

        • The Blessed Trinity

          • The Father eternally pours out His Love to The Son

          • The Son receives that Love, gives it back to The Father

          • And the Love between them is so real, that is actually another Person named Holy Spirit

            • This why we say that The Holy Spirit "proceeds from The Father and The Son"

B.  This same Holy Spirit has been present throughout history

2. 1. • At the beginning

        • Genesis 1

          •  - The New Life of the world

1 [a]In the beginning God created[b] the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit[c] of God was moving over the face of the waters.

 From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=RSVCE>

• Genesis 2

  •  - The New Life of Man

7 then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

 From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202&version=RSVCE>

• Genesis 2

  •  - The New Woman

21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; 22 and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202&version=RSVCE>

• In Tabernacle build by Moses & the Israelites

  • Exodus 40

34 Then the cloud[a] covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 36 Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would go onward; 37 but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not go onward till the day that it was taken up. 38 For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.

From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2040&version=RSVCE>

• At The Annunciation

  • Luke 1

    •  - The New Life of Jesus as Man

    • Holy Spirit is Spouse of Blessed Virgin Mary

34 And Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no husband?” 35 And the angel said to her,

“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,

and the power of the Most High will overshadow you;

therefore the child to be born[h] will be called holy,

the Son of God.

From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%201&version=RSVCE>

• At Jesus' Baptism

  • Luke 3

21 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, as a dove, and a voice came from heaven, “Thou art my beloved Son;[c] with thee I am well pleased.”[d]

From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%203&version=RSVCE>

• At Pentecost

  • Acts 2

    •  - The New Life of the Church

1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%202&version=RSVCE>

• In the Most Holy Eucharist - The Blessed Sacrament

  • GIRM (General Instruction of the Roman Missal)

    • Epiclesis: 

      • In which, by means of particular invocations, the Church implores the power of the Holy Spirit that the gifts offered by human hands be consecrated, that is, become Christ’s Body and Blood, and that the spotless Victim to be received in Communion be for the salvation of those who will partake of it.

  • CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

    • IV. The Liturgical Celebration of the Eucharist

      • 1353 In the epiclesis, the Church asks the Father to send his Holy Spirit (or the power of his blessing178) on the bread and wine, so that by his power they may become the body and blood of Jesus Christ and so that those who take part in the Eucharist may be one body and one spirit (some liturgical traditions put the epiclesis after the anamnesis).

      • In the institution narrative, the power of the words and the action of Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit, make sacramentally present under the species of bread and wine Christ's body and blood, his sacrifice offered on the cross once for all.

• At the writing of the Holy Scriptures

  • CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

    • II. Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture

      • 105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."69

      • "For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."70

      • 106 God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more."71

      • 107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."72

      • 108 Still, the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book". Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, "not a written and mute word, but incarnate and living".73 If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open (our) minds to understand the Scriptures."74

• At the discernment of the Holy Catholic Church

• At your conception

  • God was there at the very instant of your conception in your mother's womb.

    • He gave you your soul - the "you" that you are.

This same Holy Spirit that you seek urgently seeks you out - and desires to be one with you in the Sacrament of Confirmation

 - Your new Life in The Church

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