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Catechism: Participation of the laity in Christ’s prophetic office
Catechismal References to: Laity CCC 785 The holy People of God shares also in Christ’s prophetic office, above all in the supernatural sense of faith that belongs to the whole People, lay and clergy, when it "unfailingly adheres to this faith . . . once for all delivered to the saints," and when it deepens its understanding and becomes Christ’s witness in the midst of this world. CCC 904 Christ . . . fulfills this prophetic office, not only by the hierarchy . . . but also by the laity. He accordingly…
Catechism: Prophetic expectation of the Messiah and His Spirit
Catechismal References to: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit CCC 711 Behold, I am doing a new thing. Two prophetic lines were to develop, one leading to the expectation of the Messiah, the other pointing to the announcement of a new Spirit. They converge in the small Remnant, the people of the poor, who await in hope the "consolation of Israel" and "the redemption of Jerusalem." We have seen earlier how Jesus fulfills the prophecies concerning himself. We limit ourselves here to those in which the relationship of the Messiah and his Spirit appears…
Catechism: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit from the beginning
Catechismal References to: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit CCC 702 From the beginning until "the fullness of time," the joint mission of the Father’s Word and Spirit remains hidden, but it is at work. God’s Spirit prepares for the time of the Messiah. Neither is fully revealed but both are already promised, to be watched for and welcomed at their manifestation. So, for this reason, when the Church reads the Old Testament, she searches there for what the Spirit, "who has spoken through the prophets," wants to tell us about Christ. By "prophets"…
Catechism: Participation in Christ’s prophetic office
904 “Christ . . . fulfills this prophetic office, not only by the hierarchy . . . but also by the laity. He accordingly both establishes them as witnesses and provides them with the sense of the faith [sensus fidei] and the grace of the word”438 To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.439 905 Lay people also fulfill their prophetic mission by evangelization, “that is, the proclamation of Christ by word and the testimony of life.” For lay people, “this evangelization . . . acquires a specific…
Catechism: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ
Catechismal References to: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit CCC 727 The entire mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the fullness of time, is contained in this: that the Son is the one anointed by the Father’s Spirit since his Incarnation – Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah. Everything in the second chapter of the Creed is to be read in this light. Christ’s whole work is in fact a joint mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Here, we shall mention only what has to do with Jesus’ promise…
Catechism: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit in the fullness of time
Catechismal References to: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit CCC 717 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. John was "filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb" by Christ himself, whom the Virgin Mary had just conceived by the Holy Spirit. Mary’s visitation to Elizabeth thus became a visit from God to his people. CCC 718 John is "Elijah [who] must come." The fire of the Spirit dwells in him and makes him the forerunner of the coming Lord. In John, the precursor, the Holy…
Catechism: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit in John the Baptist
Catechismal References to: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit CCC 717 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. John was "filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb" by Christ himself, whom the Virgin Mary had just conceived by the Holy Spirit. Mary’s visitation to Elizabeth thus became a visit from God to his people. CCC 718 John is "Elijah [who] must come." The fire of the Spirit dwells in him and makes him the forerunner of the coming Lord. In John, the precursor, the Holy…
Catechism: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit in Theophanies
Catechismal References to: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit CCC 707 Theophanies (manifestations of God) light up the way of the promise, from the patriarchs to Moses and from Joshua to the visions that inaugurated the missions of the great prophets. Christian tradition has always recognized that God’s Word allowed himself to be seen and heard in these theophanies, in which the cloud of the Holy Spirit both revealed him and concealed him in its shadow. CCC 708 This divine pedagogy appears especially in the gift of the Law. God gave the…
Catechism: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit in Mary
Catechismal References to: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit CCC 721 Mary, the all-holy ever-virgin Mother of God, is the masterwork of the mission of the Son and the Spirit in the fullness of time. For the first time in the plan of salvation and because his Spirit had prepared her, the Father found the dwelling place where his Son and his Spirit could dwell among men. In this sense the Church’s Tradition has often read the most beautiful texts on wisdom in relation to Mary. Mary is acclaimed and represented in the liturgy as…
Catechism: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit made to Abraham
Catechismal References to: Prophetic promise of the Holy Spirit CCC 705 Disfigured by sin and death, man remains "in the image of God," in the image of the Son, but is deprived "of the glory of God," of his "likeness." The promise made to Abraham inaugurates the economy of salvation, at the culmination of which the Son himself will assume that "image" and restore it in the Father’s "likeness" by giving it again its Glory, the Spirit who is "the giver of life." CCC 706 Against all human hope, God promises descendants…