Endnotes

1. Jn 7:37f.

2. Jn 7:39.

3. Jn 4:14, cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 4.

4. Cf. Jn 3:5.

5. Cf. Leo XIII, Encyclical Divinum Illud Munus (9 May 1897): Acta Leonis, 17 (1898), pp. 125-148; Pius XII, Encyclical Mystici Corporis (29 June 1943): AAS 35 (1943), pp. 193-248.

6. General Audience of 6 June 1973: Insegnamenti di Paolo VI, XI (1973), 477.

7. Roman Missal; cf. 2 Cor 12:13

8. Jn 3:17

9. Phil 2:11

10. Cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 4; John Paul II, Address to those taking part in the International Congress on Pneumatology (26 March 1982), I: Insegnamenti V/1 (1982), p. 1004.

11. Cf. Jn 4:24.

12 Cf. Rom 8:22; GAl 6:15.

13. Cf. Mt 24:35.

14. Jn 4:14.

15. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 17.

16. Jn 14:16.

17. Jn 14:13.16f.

18. Cf. 1 Jn 2:1.

19. Jn 14:26.

20. Jn 15:26f.

21. Cf. 1 Jn 1:1-3; 4:14.

22. "The divinely revealed truths, which are contained and expressed in the books of the Sacred Scripture, were written through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit", and thus the same Sacred Scripture must be "read and interpreted with the help of the same spirit by means of whom it was written": Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum, 11, 12.

23. Jn 16:12f.

24. Acts 1:1.

25. Jn 16:14.

26. Jn 16:15.

27. Jn 16:7f.

28. Jn 15:26.

29. Jn 14:16.

30. Jn 14:26.

31. Jn 15:26.

32. Jn 14:16.

33. Jn 16:7.

34. Cf. Jn 3:16f, 34; 6:57; 17:3. 18. 23.

35. Mt 28:19.

36. Cf. 1 Jn 4:8. 16.

37. Cf. 1 Cor 2:10.

38. Cf. St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theol. Ia, pp. 37-38.

39. Rom 5:5.

40. Jn 16:14.

41. Gen 1:1f.

42. Gen 1:26.

43. Rom 8:19-22.

44. Jn 16:7.

45. Gal 4:6; cf. Rom 8:15.

46. Cf. Gal 4:6; Phil 1:19; Rom 8:11.

47. Cf. Jn 16:6.

48. Cf. Jn 16:20.

49. Cf. Jn 16:7.

50. Acts 10:37f

51. Cf. Lk 4:16-21; 3:16; 4:14; Mk 1:10.

52. Is 11:1-3.

53. Is 61:1f.

54. Is 48:16.

55. Is 42:1.

56. Cf. Is 53:5-6. 8.

57. Is 42:1

58. Is 42:6.

59. Is 49:6

60. Is 59:21.

61. Cf. Lk 2:25-35.

62. Cf. Lk 1:35.

63. Cf. Lk 2:19. 51.

64. Cf. Lk 4:16-21; Is 61:1f.

65. Lk 3:16; cf. Mt 3:11; Mk 1:7f.; Jn 1:33.

66. Jn 1:29.

67. Cf. Jn 1:33f.

68. Lk 3:21 f.; cf. Mt 3:16; Mk 1:10.

69. Mt 3:17.

70. Cf. St. Basil, De Spiritu Sancto, XVI, 39: PG 32, 139.

71. Acts 1:1.

72. Cf. Lk 4:1.

73. Cf. Lk 10:17-20.

74. Lk 10:21; cf. Mt 11:25 f.

75. Lk 10:22; cf. Mt 11:27.

76. Mt 3:11; Lk 3:16.

77. Jn 16:13.

78. Jn 16:14.

79. Jn 16:15.

80. Cf. Jn 14:26; 15:26.

81. Jn 3:16.

82. Rom 1:3 f.

83 Ez 36:26 f.; cf. Jn 7:37-39; 19:34.

84. Jn 16:7.

85. St. Cyril of Alexandria, In Ioannis Evangelium, Bk V, Ch. II: PG 73, 755.

86. Jn 20:19-22.

87. Cf. Jn 19:30.

88. Cf. Rom 1:4.

89. Cf. Jn 16:20.

90. Jn 16:7.

91. Jn 16:15.

92. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentiun, 4.

93. Jn 15:26f.

94. Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 4.

95. Cf. Acts 1:14.

96. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 4. There is a whole Patristic and theological tradition concerning the intimate union between the Holy Spirit and the Church, a union presented sometimes as analogous to the relation between the soul and the body in man: cf. St Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, III, 24, 1:SC 211, pp. 470-474; St. Augustine, Sermo 267, 4, 4: PL 38, 1231; Sermo 268, 2: PL 38, 1232; In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus, XXV, 13; XXVII, 6: CCL 36, 266, 272f.; St. Gregory the Great, In Septem Psalmos Poenitentiales Expositio, Psal. V, 1: PL 79, 602; Didymus the Blind, De Trinitate, II 1: PG 39, 449 f.; St. Athanasius, Oratio III contra Arianos, 22, 23, 24: PG 26, 368 f., 372 f.; St. John Chrysostom, In Epistolam ad Ephesios, Homily IX, 3: PG 62, 72 f. St. Thomas Aquinas has synthesized the preceding Patristic and theological tradition, presenting the Holy Spirit as the "heart" and the "soul" of the Church; cf. Summa Theol., III, q. 8, a. 1, ad 3; In Symbolum Apostolorum Expositio, a. IX; In Tertium Librum Sententiarum, Dist. XIII, q. 2, a. 2, Quaeastiuncula 3.

97. Cf. Rev 2:29; 3:6. 13. 22.

98. Cf. Jn 12:31; 14:30; 16:11.

99. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 1.

100. Ibid., 41.

101. Ibid., 26.

102. Jn 16:7f.

103. Jn 16:7.

104. Jn 16:8-11.

105. Cf. Jn 3:17; 12:47.

106. Cf. Eph 6:12.

107. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 2.

108. Cf. ibid., 10, 13, 27, 37, 63, 73, 79, 80.

109. Acts 2:4.

110. Cf. St. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, III, 17, 2: SC 211, p. 330-332.

111. Acts 1:4. 5. 8.

112. Acts 2:22-24.

113. Cf. Acts 3:14f.; 4:10.27f.; 7:52; 10:39; 13:28f.; etc.

114. Cf. Jn 3:17; 12:47.

115. Acts 2:36.

116. Acts 2:37 f.

117. Cf. Mk 1:15.

118. Jn 20:22.

119. Cf. Jn 16:9.

120. Hos 14:14 Vulgate; cf. 1 Cor 15:55.

121. Cf. 1 Cor 2:10.

122 Cf. 2 Thes 2:7.

123. Cf. 1 Tim 3:16.

124. Cf. Reconciliatio et Paenitentia (2 December 1984), 1922: AAS 77 (1985), pp. 229-233.

125. Cf. Gen 1-3.

126. Cf. Rom 5:19; Phil 2:8.

127. Cf. Jn 1:1. 2. 3. 10.

128. Cf. Col 1:15-18.

129. Cf. Jn 8:44.

130. Cf. Gen 1:2.

131. Cf. Gen 1:26. 28. 29.

132. Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum, 2.

133. Cf. 1 Cor 2:10 f.

134. Cf. Jn 16:11.

135. Cf. Phil 2:8.

136. Cf. Gen 2:16f.

137 Gen 3:5.

138. Cf. Gen 3:22 concerning the "tree of life"; cf. also Jn 3:36; 4:14; 5:24; 6:40. 47; 10:28; 12:50; 14:6; Acts 13:48; Rom 6:23; Gal 6:8; 1 Tim 1:16; Tit 1:2; 3:7; 1 Pet 3:22; 1 Jn 1:2; 2:25; 5:11.13; Rev 2:7.

139. Cf. St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theol., Ia-IIae, q. 80, a. 4, ad 3.

140. 1 Jn 3:8.

141. Jn 16:11.

142. Cf. Eph 6:12; Lk 22:53.

143. De Civitate Dei, XIV, 28: CCL 48, p. 541.

144. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 36.

145.In the Greek the verb is ( ), which means to invoke to call to oneself.

146. Cf. Gen 6:7.

147. Gen 6: 5-7.

148. Cf. Rom 8: 20-22.

149. Cf. Mt 15:32; Mk 8:2.

150. Heb 9:13f.

151 Jn 20:22f.

152. Acts 10:38.

153. Heb 5:7f.

154. Heb 9:14.

155. Cf. Lev 9:24; 1 Kings 18:38; 2 Chron 7:1.

156. Cf. Jn 15:26.

157. Jn 20:22f.

158. Mt 3:11.

159. Cf. Jn 3:8.

160. Jn 20:22f.

161. Cf. Sequence Veni, Sancte Spiritus.

162. St. Bonaventure, De Septem Donis Spiritus Sancti, Collatio II, 3: Ad Claras Aquas, V, 463.

163. Mk 1:15.

164. Cf. Heb 9:14.

165. Cf. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 16.

166. Cf. Gen 2:9. 17.

167. Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 16.

168. Ibid., 27.

169. Cf. Ibid., 13.

170. Cf. Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Reconciliatio et Paenitentia (2 December 1984), 16: AAS 77 (1985), pp. 213-217.

171. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 10.

172. Cf. Rom 7:14-15. 19.

173. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 37.

174. Ibid., 13.

175. Ibid., 37.

176. Cf. Sequence of Pentecost: Reple cordis intima.

177. Cf. St. Augustine, Enarr. in Ps. XLI, 13: CCL, 38, 470: "What is the abyss, and what does the abyss invoke ? If Abyss means depth, do we not consider that perhaps the heart of man is an abyss? What indeed is more deep than this abyss? Men can speak, can be seen through the working of their members, can be heard in conversation; but whose thought can be penetrated, whose heart can be read?"

178. Cf. Heb 9:14.

179. Jn 14:17.

180. Mt 12:31 f.

181. Mk 3:28 f.

182. Lk 12:10.

183. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theol. IIa-IIai, q. 14, a. 3: cf. St. Augustine, . 185, 11, 48-49: PL 33, 814f.; St. Bonavanture, Comment. in Evang. S. Lucae, Chp. XIV, 15-16: Ad Claras Aquas, VII, 314f.

184. Cf. Ps 81/80:13; Jer 7:24; Mk 3:5.

185. Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Reconciliatio et Paenitentia (2 December 1984), n. 18: AAS 77 (1985), pp. 224-228.

186. Pius XII, Radio Message to the National Catechetical Congress of the United States of America in Boston (26 October 1946): Discorsi e Radiomessaggi, VIII (1946), 228.

187. Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Reconciliatio et Paenitentia (2 December 1984), n. 18: AAS 77 (1985), pp. 225f.

188. 1 Thess 5:19; Eph 4:30.

189. Cf. Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia (2 December 1984), 14-22: AAS 77 (1985), pp. 211-233.

190. Cf. St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, XIV, 28: CCL 48, 451.

191. Cf. Jn 16:11.

192. Cf. Jn 16:15.

193. Cf. Gal 4:4.

194. Rev 1:8; 22:13.

195. Jn 3:16.

196. Gal 4:4f.

197. Lk 1:34f.

198. Mt 1:18.

199. Mt. 1:20f.

200. Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summas Theol. IIIa, q. 2, aa. 10-12; q. 6; q. 7, a. 13.

201. Lk 1:38.

202. Jn 1:14.

203. Col 1:15.

204. Cf. for example, Gen 9:11; Deut 5:26; Job 34:25; Is 40:6; 42:10; Ps 145/144:21; Lk 3:6, 1 Pet 1:24.

205. Lk 1:45.

206. Cf. Lk 1:41.

207. Cf. Jn 16:9.

208. 2 Cor 3:17.

209. Cf. Rom 1:5.

210. Rom 8:29.

211. Cf. Jn 1:154. 4. 12f.

212. Cf. Rom 8:14.

213. Cf. Gal 4:6; Rom 5:5; 2 Cor 1:22.

214. Rom 8:15.

215. Rom 8:16f.

216. Cf. Ps 104/103:30.

217. Rom 8:19.

218. Rom 8:29.

219. Cf. 2 Pet 1:4.

220. Cf. Eph 2:18; Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum, 2.

221. Cf. 1 Cor 2:12.

222. Cf. Eph 1:3-14.

223. Eph 1:13f.

224. Cf. Jn 3:8.

225. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 22; cf. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 16.

226. Jn 4:24.

227. Ibid.

228. Cf. St. Augustine, Confess. III, 6, II: CCL 27, 33.

229. Cf. Tit 2:11.

230. Cf. Is 45:15.

231. Cf. Wis 1:7.

232. Lk 2:27. 34.

233. Gal 5:17.

234. Gal 5:16f.

235. Cf. Gal 5:19-21.

236. Gal 5:22f.

237. Gal 5:25.

238. Cf. Rom 8:5. 9.

239. Rom 8:6. 13.

240. Rom 8:10. 12.

241. Cf. 1 Cor 6:20.

242. Cf. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 19, 20, 21.

243. Lk 3:6; cf. Is 40:5.

244. Cf. Rom 8:23.

245. Rom 8:3.

246. Rom 8:26.

247. Rom 8:11.

248. Rom 8:10.

249. Cf. Encyclical Redemptor Hominis (4 March 1979), 14: AAS 71 (1979), pp. 284f.

250. Cf. Wis 15:3.

251. Cf. Eph 3:14-16.

252. Cf. 1 Cor 2:10f.

253. Cf. Rom 8:9; 1 Cor 6:19.

254. Cf. Jn 14:23; St. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, V, 6, 1: SC 153, pp. 72-80; St. Hilary, De Trinitate, VIII, 19. 21: PL 10, 250. 252; St. Ambrose, De Spiritu Sancto, I, 6, 8: PL 16, 752f.; St. Augustine, Enarr. in Ps. XLIX, 2: CCL 38, pp. 575f.; St. Cyril of Alexandria, In Ioannis Evangelium, Bk I; II: PG 73, 154-158; 246; Bk IX: PG 74, 262; St. Athanasius, Oratio III contra Arianos, 24: PG 26, 374f.; Epist. I ad Serapionem, 24: PG 26, 586f.; Didymus the Blind, De Trinitate, II, 6-7: PG 39, 523-530; St. John Chrysostom, In Epist. ad Romanos Homilia XIII, 8: PG 60, 519; St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theol. Ia, q. 43, aa. 1, 3-6.

255. Cf. Gen 1:26f.; St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theol. Ia, q. 93, aa. 4. 5. 8.

256. Cf. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 24; cf. also No. 25.

257. Cf. Ibid. 38, 40.

258. Cf. 1 Cor 15:28.

259. Cf. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 24.

260. Cf. St. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, IV, 20, 7: SC 100/2, p. 648.

261. St. Basil, De Spiritu Sancto, IX, 22: PG 32, 110.

262. Rom 8:2.

263. 2 Cor 3:17.

264. Cf. Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 53-59.

265. Ibid., 38.

266. 1 Cor 8:6.

267. Jn 16:7.

268. Jn 14. 18.

269. Mt 28:20.

270. This is what the "Epiclesis" before the Consecration expresses: "Let your Spirit come upon these gifts to make them holy, so that they may become for us the body and blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ" (Eucharistic Prayer II).

271. Cf. Eph 3:16.

272. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 24.

273. Ibid.

274.Cf. Acts 2:42.

275. Second Vatican Council, Decree on Ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio, 2.

276. St. Augustine, In Ioannis Evangelium Tractatus XXVI, 13: CCL 36, p. 266; cf. Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium, 47.

277. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 1.

278. Acts 17:28.

279. 1 Tim 2:4.

280. Cf. Heb 5:7.

281. Lk 11:13.

282. Rom 8:26.

283. Cf. Origen, De Oratione, 2: PG 11, 419-423.

284. Rom 8:27.

285. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 63.

286. Ibid., 64.

287. Ibid., 4; cf. Rev 22:17.

288. Cf. Rom 8:24.

289. Cf. Jn 4:14; Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 4.

290. Cf. Rev. 12:10.

291. Cf. Rom 8:23.

292. Cf. Sequence Veni, Sancte Spiritus.

293. Cf. Creed Quicumque: DS 75.

294. Cf. Rom 5:5.

295. One should mention here the important Apostolic Exhortation Gaudete in Domino, published by Pope Paul VI on 9 May in the Holy Year 1975; ever relevant is the invitation expressed there "to implore the gift of joy from the Holy Spirit" and likewise "to appreciate the properly spiritual joy, that is a fruit of the Holy Spirit": AAS 67 (1975), PP.289; 302.

296. Cf. Jn 16:22.

297. Cf. Rom 14:17; Gal 5:22.