When the Son completed the work with which the Father had entrusted him on earth, the Holy Spirit was sent on the day of Pentecost to sanctify the Church unceasingly, and thus enable believers to have access to the Father through Christ in the one Spirit. He is the Spirit of life, the fountain of water welling up to give eternal life. Through him the Father gives life to men, dead because of sin, until he raises up their mortal bodies in Christ. The Spirit dwells in the Church and in the hearts of the faithful as in a temple. Lumen Gentium  the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Second Vatican Council, 1964 All Creation rejoices in you, O full of grace, the order of angels and the race of men, O hallowed temple and spiritual paradise, the boast of virgins, from whom God, who is our