Third Person of The Trinity. We believe in One God Who is in Three Persons. Just as a man may be a husband, brother, and father, so may God be Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Readers know that one of Catholic Fundamentalism’s modest aims is to replace some Iron Age words with terminology from our own time, The Age of Electron Transfer. To that end, we sometimes use “The Loving Programmer” to describe “The Father. “The Son” is thought of as “The Program, Who Took Living Form and Lived Among Us.”
“The Holy Spirit” has two descriptions in our lexicon. We think of Him as “Programming”. He is the act and process of programming, by which The Loving Programmer brought the vast Creation Program into being, a program that has taken perfect, living form in the Person of The Son, “The Program”. “Programming” is the verb that gives life to nouns. When we respectfully think and speak of The Holy Spirit as “Programming”, we see Him as the very essence of movement. He is what puts cause into effect. The Holy Spirit is the holy personification of the very essence of “Verb”. He is action.
Of Him, Jesus says, beginning in John, 16;12:
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,
he will guide you to all truth.
He will not speak on his own,
but he will speak what he hears,
and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me,
because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine;
for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine
and declare it to you.”
We see Jesus speaking of The Holy Spirit, describing Him with verb after verb. He is “coming, guiding, speaking, hearing, declaring, glorifying, and taking.” There is probably no better way to spend the next few moments than by saying “Holy Spirit, come, speak, and guide me to a deeper relationship with He Who Lovingly Programmed us and The Program. Let me hear and understand, declare to me what I should do, help me to glorify God. Please, take from Him and download that within me that I may better do His will.”
While we’re here, we want to be a living verb, moving ourselves closer to He Who programmed all, and to The Program, who took human form and became the Lamb of God, sacrificing Himself for our salvation.
