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Choose a topic from Part 1:

• God and His Attributes
• The Blessed Trinity
  • 27. The Proceeding of the Divine Persons
  • 28. The Divine Relations
  • 29. The Divine Persons
  • 30. The Plurality of Persons in God
  • 31. Terms for unity and Plurality in God
  • 32. Our Knowledge of the Divine Persons
  • 33. The Person of God the Father
  • 34. The Person of God the Son
  • 35. The Son as Image of the Father
  • 36. The Person of God the Holy Ghost
  • 37. "Love" as the Name of the Holy Ghost
  • 38. "Gift" as the Name of the Holy Ghost
  • 39. Persons and Essence in God
  • 40. Divine Relations and Divine Persons
  • 41. Our Notions of the Divine Persons as Operating
  • 42. The Equality of the Divine Persons
  • 43. The "Mission" or "Sending" of the Divine Persons
• Creation
• The Angels
• The Days of Creation
• Man
• The Divine Government

37. "Love" as the Name of the Holy Ghost

1. Although love is an essential name of God, as we have seen, the term is also used specifically as a personal name in God; as such it is proper to the Third Person of the Trinity.The Holy Ghost is love.

2. The Father and the Son love each other by the Holy Ghost, not, however, as though the Holy Ghost were the principle of this love; for God is love by His essence, and not by a Person.

"God has no need of men."
St Philip Neri

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"Try to turn your heart from the love of things visible and bring yourself to things invisible. For they who follow their own evil passions stain their consciences and lose the grace of God. "
Thomas á Kempis

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"It is not God's will that we should abound in spiritual delights, but that in all things we should submit to his holy will."
Blessed Henry Suso

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