The Resurrection, work of the Holy Trinity.
Christ’s Resurrection is an object of faith in that it is a transcendent intervention of God himself in creation and history. In it the three divine Persons act together, while each shows what is proper to him.
It was accomplished by the power of the Father, who raised up Christ his Son (cf. Acts 2:24) and in this way perfectly brought his humanity, including his body, into the Trinity. Jesus is conclusively revealed as “Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his Resurrection from the dead” (Rom 1:3-4).
Saint Paul stresses the manifestation of God’s power through the working of the Spirit, who gave life to Jesus’ dead humanity and called it to the glorious state of Lordship.
As for the Son, he brings about his own Resurrection by virtue of his divine power. Jesus announces that the Son of man will have to suffer much, die and then rise. Elsewhere he states plainly: “I lay down my life, that I may take it again… I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again” (Jn 10:17-18).
“We believe that Jesus died and rose again” (1 Thess 4:14).
The Fathers contemplate the Resurrection from the perspective of the divine person of Christ, who remained united to his soul and body even when these were separated from each other by death: by the unity of the divine nature, which remains present in each of the two parts of man, these are reunited. In this way death comes about through the separation of the human composite, and the Resurrection through the union of the two separated parts.
Catechism of the Catholic Church, nos. 648-650
