The Most Holy Trinity

The Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity, Sunday 30th, 2010 We celebrate the Mass of the Most Blessed Trinity. The Gospel has four verses from John 16: 12-15. Jesus speaks for the Father and of the Spirit. He tells the disciples, and us. Fathers of the Church are all eloquent on the Trinity … meditation on the enlightening activity of the Holy Spirit and on the mystery of the shared life of the Holy Trinity Hilary, e.g., says “By my regeneration I have received the faith, but I am still ignorant; and yet I have a firm hold on something which I do not understand.” … Rather than waste time in a fruitless war of words, I would prefer to spend it in the firm profession of an unhesitating faith.” Last Trinity Sunday (2009), Pope Benedict xvi spoke in very clear and simple words among others, “Three Persons who are one God because the Father is love, the Son is love, the Spirit is love. God is wholly and only love, the purest, infinite, and eternal love. He does not live in splendid solitude but rather is an inexhaustible source of life that is ceaselessly given and communicated.” In this act of faith in the Most Blessed Trinity we offer Holy Mass … (Benedict XVI (Pope) From L'O$servatore Romano, p. I. June 10, 2009, courtesy Libreria Edit-ice Vaticana. www.vnticnn.va.

The Most Blessed Trinity Today we contemplate the Most Holy Trinity as Jesus introduced us to it. He revealed to us that God is love "not in the oneness of a single Person, but in the Trinity of one substance" (Preface). He is the Creator and merciful Father; he is the Only-Begotten Son, eternal Wisdom incarnate, who died and rose for us; he is the Holy Spirit who moves all things, cosmos and history, toward their final, full recapitulation. Three Persons who are one God because the Father is love, the Son is love, the Spirit is love. God is wholly and only love, the purest, infinite, and eternal love. He does not live in splendid solitude but rather is an inexhaustible source of life that is ceaselessly given and communicated. To a certain extent we can perceive this by observing both the macro-universe: our earth, the planets, the stars, the galaxies; and the micro-universe: cells, atoms, elementary particles. The "name" of the Blessed Trinity is, in a certain sense, imprinted upon all things because all that exists, down to the last particle, is in relation; in this way we catch a glimpse of God as relationship and ultimately, Creator Love. All things derive from love, aspire to love, and move impelled by love, though naturally with varying degrees of awareness and freedom ... "In him we live and move and have our being," Saint Paul said at the Areopagus of Athens (Acts 17: 28). The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: love alone makes us happy because we live in a relationship, and we live to love and to be loved. Borrowing an analogy from biology, we could say that imprinted upon his "genome," the human being bears a profound mark of the Trinity, of God as Love. The Virgin Mary, in her docile humility, became the hand maid of divine Love: she accepted the Father's will and conceived the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. In her the Almighty built a temple worthy of him and made her the model and image of the Church, mystery and house of communion for all human beings. May Mary, Mirror of the Blessed Trinity, help us to grow in faith in the Trinitarian mystery. Pope Benedict XVI