There is only one Person in Jesus Christ, which is the Person of God the Son.
Although Jesus Christ possesses both a divine nature and a human nature, He is not two persons. He is one divine Person: the eternal Son of God. Everything Jesus does, whether through His divine nature or His human nature, is done by the one Person of the Son. This truth is sometimes called the hypostatic union, meaning the union of two natures in one divine Person. The Church teaches this doctrine to preserve the unity of Christ. When Jesus was born, suffered, taught, healed, and died, it was the Son of God acting through His human nature. Likewise, the miracles He performed revealed His divine power. Understanding that Jesus is one Person helps Catholics see that the same Jesus who walked the roads of Galilee is the eternal Son through whom all things were made. The Incarnation united God and man in the one Person of Christ forever.
The Church confesses that the one whom she recognises as Jesus Christ is true God and true man. We confess one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division, or separation.
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.
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