He has all that we have by nature, but not the things we have acquired such as deformities, imperfections, and the like.  Everything in Our Lord was perfect.  Above all, He had no sin of any kind; nor even inclination to sin.  He could be hungry, as He was when He fasted forty days in the desert. (Matt. 4:2).  He was thirsty, as He said on the Cross. (John 19:28).  He could be wearied; as we read in the Holy Scripture (John 4:6) that He sat down by a well to rest, while His disciples went into the city to buy food.  All these sufferings come from our very nature.  We say a thing comes from our very nature when everybody has it.  Now, everyone in the world may at times be hungry, thirsty, or tired; but everybody in the world need not have a toothache or headache, because such things are not common to human nature, but due to some defect in our body; and such defects Our Lord did not have, because He was a perfect man.  Therefore, Our Lord had a body like ours, not as it usually is with defects, but as it should be, perfect in all things that belong to its nature, as Adam’s was before he sinned.

65 Q. How many natures are there in Jesus Christ?  A. In Jesus Christ there are two natures:  the nature of God and the nature of man.

He was perfect God and perfect man.  His human nature was under the full power of His divine nature, and could not do anything contrary to His divine will.  You cannot understand how there can be two natures and two wills in one person, because it is another of the great mysteries; but you must believe it, just as you believe there are three Persons in one God, though you do not understand it.  Those who learn theology and study a great deal may understand it better than you, but never fully.  It will be enough, therefore, for you to remember and believe that there are two natures—­the divine nature and the human nature—­in the one person of Our Lord.

66 Q. Is Jesus Christ more than one person?  A. No, Jesus Christ is but one Divine Person.

“But one,” so that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Son of God, the Messias, Christ, Jesus, Our Lord, Our Saviour, Our Redeemer, etc., are all names for the one Person; and, besides these, there are many other names given to Our Lord in the Holy Scripture, both in the Old and the New Testaments.

67 Q. Was Jesus Christ always God?  A. Jesus Christ was always God, as He is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, equal to His Father from all eternity.

68 Q. Was Jesus Christ always man?  A. Jesus Christ was not always man, but became man at the time of His Incarnation.

69 Q. What do you mean by the Incarnation?  A. By the Incarnation I mean that the Son of God was made man.

70 Q. How was the Son of God made man?  A. The Son of God was conceived and made man by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

71 Q. Is the Blessed Virgin Mary truly the Mother of God?  A. The Blessed Virgin Mary is truly the Mother of God, because the same Divine Person who is the Son of God is also the Son of the Blessed Virgin Mary.