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procession

procession

2 9.9
A Christian belief that the Holy Spirit comes from the Father or from both Father and Son
  • noun
  • /prəˈsɛʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : procedencia
  • There is an inner-trinitarian difference between the procession of the Son and the procession of the Spirit.
  • procession of the Spirit
  • holy procession
  • procession from the Son

Examples

  • The mission of the Son is the procession plus a temporal effect.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The mission of the Spirit is the procession plus a temporal effect.

    Academic text (2008)

  • His solution is to implicate the Son in the procession of the Spirit:

    Academic text (2003)

  • Two-thirds of the book is taken up with renewed accounts of the procession of the Word and the Spirit.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Priests elevate the holy host and carry it in procession to the parish church of St. Michael.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The will as a productive power is reserved by Bonaventure for the procession of the Holy Spirit.

    Academic text (2007)

  • A key element in Augustine's response is the Filioque, which draws the Son into the procession of the Spirit.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Just before dawn, the Loyal Arthurian Warband led a torchlight procession complete with dancers and drummers, top right.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Priests elevate the holy host and carry it in procession to the parish church of St. Michael.

  • There will be an immediate procession of the Blessed Sacrament throughout the village.

Synonyms

emanation
vsprocession
  • Specialized
1 9.9

How the Holy Spirit is believed to come from the Father and the Son

focuses on the doctrinal relation among Father, Son, and Spirit rather than the flow event

Surface Forms

procession singular
processions plural

Morphology

procession = process (opaque) = process + ion

Although historically related to 'process', the theological sense 'origination/emanation (of the Holy Spirit)' is a specialized doctrinal meaning that learners cannot derive from the common meanings of 'process'.

Etymology

Procession comes from the Latin parts pro- 'forward' and cedere 'to go', the same root as proceed. In Christian theology a procession is the idea of the Holy Spirit 'going forth' or 'coming from' the Father (or from the Father and the Son), which is why the word talks about where the Spirit comes from.