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Today is Wednesday, October 9th, 2019.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about the Holy Trinity.

We talked about how God is a community or more so a family, how the Trinity is a very difficult thing to understand,

and we can never fit all there is about God inside of our tiny little minds.

And we also talked about how God is a community of love. He is lover, beloved,

and the very love that flows between the two.

Today, we are going to start talking specifically about the Holy Spirit, the third person

of the Trinity. Now, the Holy Spirit is probably the hardest part of the Trinity to understand.

God spent the entire Old Testament letting people know who

he was. All of the prophets, all of the stories from the book of Genesis, from Adam and Eve,

Noah, Moses, escaping Egypt, all of those stories are really stories not so much about the Bible characters,

but stories about God, how God is faithful, how God keeps his promises, how God asks us to obey him,

and live by a certain code of morals. So the entire Old Testament, we get to know God. In the New Testament, we get to know

Jesus. He is perhaps the easiest person in the Trinity for us to understand. And that's obviously

because he's like us. Jesus came to earth. He had emotions and pain. He had a mom and dad. He had friends. He dealt with

rejection. Granted, he was also God. He sacrificed himself for us in a way that we might not be

capable of doing. But we understand Jesus. We can see him walking

around in the Bible stories and hear the words that he says. So he is the easiest one for us to

understand. And then, of course, there's the Holy Spirit. So before we dig into the Holy Spirit, let's just remember kind of how the

Holy Spirit came to be. Before Jesus ascended back up into heaven, he promised the apostles,

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