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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

38. "Gift" as the Name of the Holy Ghost

1. The name gift in God is a personal name. A rational creature (man or angel) can possess God by or through a Person of the Trinity who is thus given to the creature.

2. This name gift in God is proper to the Third Person of the Trinity. A gift is the fruit of love. Love itself which dictates the giving is the first gift. Hence, as the Holy Ghost has the proper name of love, He is also properly called gift. St. Augustine (De Trin. vx) says,"By the gift which is the Holy Ghost, many particular gifts are bestowed on the members of Christ."

"Lord, here burn, here cut, and dry up in me all that hinders me from going to You, that You may spare me in eternity."
St Louis Bertrand

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"God speaks to us without ceasing by his good inspirations."
The Cure D'Ars

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"To do God's will -- this was the goal upon which the saints constantly fixed their gaze. They were fully persuaded that in this consists the entire perfection of the soul. "
St Alphonsus de Liguori

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