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summa theologiae reflections

SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS’ THE NAME OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - LOVE

11/18/2025

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Whether “Love” is the proper name of the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit itself is love. As a personal name, the word “Love” is the proper name of the Holy Spirit. Remember, there are two processions in God; first, by way of the intellect which is the procession of the Word (Lord Jesus Christ who is Son). Second, by way of the will which is the procession of Love. Now, in the Moderni Age in babylon, the word “love” is used for many reasons and purposes; ownership, sexual immorality, lust, idolatry, covetousness,  manipulation, deceit, property rights, familial duties, and the like. But what the failed wisdom of this age does not realize is that in the things they claim to “love” but do not love, they actually hate, while going about their hatred under the false pretense they labeled as “love.” For what this place does and its many abominations it carries out is the exact opposite of love, and in its radical faithlessness, atheism, and relativist morality (liberalism) it leads others in the opposite direction of goodness, which is darkness that is opposed to the Holy Spirit which is a movement of the will and love throughout the entire world in all humans whom it wishes for all to come to faith and the truth for the Salvation of Souls in Christ Jesus. Those who are lacking in true love are also lacking in the Holy Spirit. Those who resist the Holy Spirit cannot love. And just because a place or a people became really clever in language arguments and calling their sins (non-being) love so as to put a bow and lipstick on a dead skunk (their sins), does not mean that the awful things they have grown to accept will ever be recognized by the Holy Spirit (Who is a movement of love) as an action of love. For the Spirit of Truth also knows what Love truly is (Itself) and what it is not!

Whether the Father and the Son love each other by the Holy Spirit?

In God, to love is understood in two ways: One, it essentially means that the Father and the Son love one another not just by the Holy Spirit alone, but by The One Essence (Three Persons, One Divine Essence). Second; in the notional sense, it means to “spirate love,” which in another way is to say that to throw a football is to play football, and to sit in the driver’s seat of a car is to drive a car - so we say in the notional sense as it pertains to the Father and the Son loving each other, that they spirate love to one another through the unity of The One Essence in Three Persons. 


​​I am blessed to be a Third Order Lay Dominican. However, the ideas expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the endorsement of or position of the Order of Preachers as a whole.
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Commentary regarding Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae derived from: ST part (I), Q. 27-49 from newadvent.org with permission.
 
Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
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