If Jesus is the mediator between God and humanity, the Spirit is the medium in which God's transforming action takes place.The Love in which the Father and the Son are united is the divine We. Yet it reaches beyond itself to include the we of all believers in its embrace. As the last breath of the Crucified (John 19:30) and the first breath of the risen Lord (John 20:22), the Spirit is Christ's gift of the divine Love-life he has come to share. (Anthony Kelly, God is Love: the Heart of Christian Faith)

Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is a longtime Commonweal contributor.

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