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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 2:33

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Acts 2:33 (WEB)

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you now see and hear.

Catechism · 3

"He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of the Father"

  • §659Article 6 · "He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of the Father"Read at vatican.va

    “Jesus' final apparition ends with the irreversible entry of his humanity into divine glory, symbolized by the cloud and by heaven, where he is seated from that time forward at God's right hand.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 1:9; 2:33; 7:56; Lk 9:34-35; 24:51; Ex 13:22; Mk 16:19; Ps 110:1.

"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"

  • §731Article 8 · "I Believe in the Holy Spirit"Read at vatican.va

    “On the day of Pentecost when the seven weeks of Easter had come to an end, Christ's Passover is fulfilled in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, manifested, given, and communicated as a divine person: of his fullness, Christ, the Lord, pours out the Spirit in abundance.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 2:33-36.

The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit

  • §788Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va

    “He promised to remain with them until the end of time; he sent them his Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 14:18; 20:22; Mt 28:20; Acts 2:33.

Fathers and councils · 4

Irenaeus of Lyons

Theodoret of Cyrus

Augustine of Hippo

  • “Both natures, too, as well the human as the divine, are shown in that also that is written of Him, that He received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, and shed forth the Holy Spirit: seeing that He received as man, and shed forth as God.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 33

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Tertullian

  • “…then, Christ was announced by the Creator, “who formeth the lightning, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man His Christ,” as the prophet Joel says, since the entire hope of the Jews, not to say of the Gentiles too, was fixed on the manifestation of Christ,—it was demonstrated that they, by their being…” — editor's note: A supposed quotation of Amos iv. 13. See Oehler’s marginal reference. If so, the reference to Joel is either a slip of Tertullian or a corruption of his text;…

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