The infusion of faith (John 3:36) – the revelation of God the Father is made even more personal to us with the infusion of the theological virtue of faith into our intellect.What does this have to do with God the Father? Everything, for Jesus makes it clear that the Holy Spirit is the promise of the Father (see Luke 24:49 Acts 1:4-5). We read therein that the Holy Spirit descends upon the faithful as the founding gift and soul of the Church. The sending of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2) – we read in Acts 2 of the first Christian Pentecost 50 days after Easter, which marks the birth of the Church.The three Persons in God are distinct, yet consubstantial, coequal, and coeternal.
The formula for Baptism itself reveals to us the three persons in one God: when we are baptized into the Passion, death, and resurrection of Christ, it is in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The Church’s Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20) – just prior to his ascension into heaven, Jesus gives his Catholic Church her mission: to teach all nations and baptize them.Jesus’ own obedience to the will of the Father, captured no more powerfully than in the agony of the garden, shows forth his own union of will with the Father’s. The crucifixion especially is the love that the Father has for the world, a love so as to send his only begotten Son to death to redeem us from our sins.
The Passion (Matthew 26-27 Mark 14-15 Luke 22-23 John 13-19) – nothing reveals the love of the Father so much as the Passion of Christ, which shows that the Father’s infinite love for mankind doesn’t even spare his only-begotten Son.
#Like father like son 2 series#
Having discussed five ways that Jesus Christ reveals the Person of God the Father in my last post, I’d like to now finish this series with another five ways. Image: detail of Adoration of the Trinity, Albrecht Dürer
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