TRINITY 2015 From: Fr. Raymond Homily

       

 “A white counter on which is written a name known only to ourselves and to our Creator”.  That is how the book of the Apocalypse so poetically describes it.  This priceless gift of personhood enables us to relate to others and to share in their lives just as the three Divine Persons share in the one Divine Life of the Trinity.

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TRINITY 2015 From: Fr. Raymond Homily

Mankind has acknowledged its God, its Creator, from the dawn of time.  there is plenty of evidence for this through all the ages.  Even in the most apparently God-forsaken places, in the most primitive of societies, men have worship a god of one kind or another.  St Paul, in his speech in the Areopagus attributes this to the loving providence of God.  And St Augustine says that God did not abandon his children altogether when they first sinned against him.  The story of the fall in the Garden of Eden is only the beginning of a great love story because God was going to lead his children back gradually and patiently to reconciliation and to full knowledge and communion with himself.  God’s call of ‘Adam!  Where are you?’ when he hid himself in shame after his fall wasn’t the call of an angry, offended Deity.  No!  It was the cry of a Father who has lost his Son!  “Adam!  Where are you?” And mankind on its part, for all its waywardness, still hankered after its Maker.  It needed him!

It is only in relatively recent times that man has grown so self assured that he sees no need for a God of any kind.  He now imagines himself to be so much in control of his “Tower-of-Babel”, this “Tower-of-Babel”of a society that we have built for our-selves, that we have no longer have any need for him!  There seems to be nothing that we can’t accomplish for ourselves now.  We can reach out to the stars; we can split the atom; we can manipulate nature; we can even engineer human life itself now!  No wonder we read in Genesis that God repented of making man.  When they built their tower of Babel God said “This is only the beginning!  When they set their minds to it now there is nothing they won’t be able to accomplish!

But, although God repented of having made man, and although he could look down the centuries and see the terrible accumulation of evil that man would pile up, yet he still didn’t abandon him.  Indeed we might take the words out of the mouth of Job and put them into the mouth of God: “Even though they slay me yet will I love them!” And how prophetic those words are:  “Even though they slay me yet will I love them!” because that is precisely what came to pass.  We put our very God, our creator, to death.  We nailed him to a cross.  

In spite of all this our God continued, not only to seek after us, but also gradually to reveal himself more and more clearly to us.  We tended to think of him in human terms.  We made our God in our own image and likeness, as it were.  We thought of him in many different forms.  The Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Lands of the East, all had their different ideas of him.  Polytheism flourished everywhere.  But God carefully nourished and shepherded one unique people, the nation of the Hebrews, the descendents of Abraham, to guard jealousy the true idea of one, only, all powerful and eternal God. And eventually, into that nation he himself descended from heaven in the person of Jesus to finally reveal the great secret of the  Godhead, namely that although he is one, and only one in his divine being, yet he is three in person.

And this Trinitarian nature of our Creator is manifest throughout his handiwork of creation:  1. All things exist in one or other of three forms, be it liquid, solid, or vapour.  2. All things exist in three dimensions: length, breadth and height.  3. All time is enclosed in past, present and future.  4. The human race exists and survives as man woman and child.

But surely the most sublime gift of our wonderful human nature and the one that most intimately likens us to the Trinity is the sublime gift God has given each of us of our own individual personhood.      “A white counter on which is written a name known only to ourselves and to our Creator”.  That is how the book of the Apocalypse so poetically describes it.  This priceless gift of personhood enables us to relate to others and to share in their lives just as the three Divine Persons share in the one Divine Life of the Trinity.

Luisa Piccareta, God centered His Love toward man. 31 May 2015 Most Sacred Trinity

Saturday, 30 May 2015

Luisa Piccareta, How in all created things God centered His Love toward man. 31 May 2015 Most Sacred Trinity

   

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The illustration above, Trinity, is apt in the words of Luisa Piccarreta in prayer, theology,catechism, mysticism.... 

From the Journal of

Luisa Piccarreta

Book of Heaven

VOLUME 20   

  http://hymnsandchants.com/Texts/Fiat/FiatVolumes/FiatVolume20/FiatVolume20.htm   

October 29, 1926

How in all created things God centered His Love toward man.  Outpouring of love in creating him, and how the Fiat made him live in the reflections of his Creator.           
- Most Sacred Trinity 

1.             I continued my rounds throughout Creation, following every action of the Supreme Will in each created thing.  My always lovable Jesus came out from within me and accompanied me everywhere under the vault of heaven.  As we reached each created things, Jesus trembled with joy and love. 

2.            He paused to tell me: “My daughter, when I created the heavens, Icentered My Love for man there, and to delight him even more, I studded them with stars.  It was not the heavens I loved, but man in the heavens; I created them for him.  My Love was so vast and strong that I extended this azure vault over the head of man and adorned with brilliant stars, as a pavilion for him.  No emperor or king could ever have one like it.”

3.             “However, I was not content with centering My Love for man in these heavens that I made purely for his delight.  I wanted to delight in love for him, so I created the sun, where I centered all my love for man.  It wasn’t the sun I loved; I loved man in the sun.  It was necessary to put my love there because the sun was necessary for the earth, the plants and the well-being of man.  There was love of the light that illuminates him, and love of the fire that warms him, and all the other innumerable effects that this sphere produces.  It is an on-going miracle placed in the vault of the heavens, where its light comes down for the good of all.  I centered so many kinds of love for man in the sun, one for each of all the many good effects it produces.” 

4.             “If only the creature at least paid attention to My Love the sun brings to her, how happy I would be.  I would be repaid for the great love I placed in this ambassador of My Divinity, the bearer of My Love and My Light.” 

5.             “As My Supreme Will operated, It established Itself as the life of each created thing, so It could give Itself as life for generations of humankind.  It is through each created thing that My Love, making its way in My Eternal Fiat, orients Itself around loving mankind.  In each created thing, in the wind and sea, a little flower or the little bird that sings, I centralized My Love in each of these so they may all bring him love.  This is My language of love.  However, mankind cannot hear, much less understand it unless they love Me.  If they don’t, all of Creation is dead silence for them.”

6.             “Then, after I created everything, I shaped the nature of man with My own creative hands.  As I formed the bones, extended the nerves and made the heart.  I also centralized My Love in him.  I clothed him with flesh, shaping him so he was more beautiful than any statue ever made by any sculpture.  I looked at him with so much affection that I was unable to contain My Love, and It overflowed as I breathed on him, infusing him with life.”

7.             “However, We were still not satisfied.  With superabundant love, the Most Sacredt Trinity endowed him by giving him intellect, memory and will.  We enriched him with all the attributes of Our Divine Being, as much as a creature in capable of receiving.  The whole of the Divinity was intent on loving man, so It poured Itself into him.  From the very first moment of his life, he felt all the strength of Our Love, and from the depth of his heart, he gave voice to his love for his Creator.” 

8.             “We were so happy when We heard this statue We made as part of Our work, speaking about his perfect love for Us.  It was the reflection of Our own Love that he was expressing.  This love had not yet been contaminated by his will, so it was still perfect; he still had all Our Love within him.  Out of everything We created up until then, none of them had ever told Us it loved Us.”

9.             “When We heard man expressing his love for Us, We were content.  We were so full of joy that, in the midst of our feasting, We crowned him as king of the entire universe.  He was the most beautiful jewel Our creative hands had ever made.  Man was so beautiful early in his creation.  He was Our reflection, so beautiful that Our Love was in rapture.  As Our reflection, everything he did was perfect.  The glory he gave to his Creator, his adoration, his work and his love, they were all perfect.  The perfect harmony of his voice resounded throughout Creation.  It was the Divine harmony of the same Fiat that had given him life.” 

10.         “Everything about him was in perfect order, like the image of his Creator that Our Will had given him.  It made him happy, and he grew in Our Likeness, according to Our words: ‘Let Us make man in Our Image and Likeness.’  His every action was done in the Unity of the Light of the Supreme Fiat, each one a touch of the Divine Beauty he was given.  His every word added another note of resounding harmony.   Everything about him was a love that he sang in praise of Our Glory, Power and infinite Wisdom.  The heavens, the earth and sun, everything gave him joy, happiness and the love of He who had created him.” 

11.         “If you could make a statue exactly the way you wanted, and make it come to life within the empire of the freely given love you have poured into it, how much would you love it?  How much would you want it to love you?  Wouldn’t you want it completely for yourself?  Wouldn’t you get so jealous over it that you would want its every heartbeat to be just for you?  If you could see yourself in this statue, wouldn’t you feel torn up inside if it didn’t do every little thing just for you?”

12.         “That’s how I am.  Every time the creature does something that isn’t just for Me, My feelings get torn apart.  What makes it worse is that the earth that supports her is Mine; the sun that illuminates and warms her is Mine; the water she drinks and the food she eats are Mine.  Everything is Mine and she lives at My expense.  I give everything to this beautiful statue, yet she is not there for Me.  Can you image My sorrow at how outrageously offensive this statue is to Me?  Think about it, My daughter.”

13.         “You know that only My Will can give Me back My beautiful statue, just as I made it.  My Will is the preserver of all Our works.  It is the bearer of all Our reflections, the habitat of the soul.  When she loves, it is with the perfection of Our Love; when she works, it is with the perfection of Our works.  Everything she does is perfect and gives her so many different shades of beauty that her Maker, who formed her, is captivated by love.”

14.         “I would love so much that the Supreme Fiat be known and form Its Kingdom among generations of humankind.  I want to re-establish relations between Creator and creature.  I want her to return and share all Our wealth in common with her.  Our Will alone has this power.  Without It, there can’t be much good, nor could Our statue return to Us, as beautiful as We made it with Our creative hands.”

Luisa Picarreta

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Holy Trinity celebration, top-over trifle dessert

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Cloudberry fruit & trinity leaves adorn the dessert

After the Mass, in the kitchen, on the trolley to serve lunch was the "top over" dessert. 
Brother S, cooking for the day, embellished the trifle with cloudberry fruit and leaves.

To my astonishment, the leaves beautifully symbolize the Trinity. See illustration. 

 Cloudberry displays the tri(nity) leaves
beside our hot house.  

Rubus rosifolius (rose-leaf bramble)  

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Trinity: Three Persons, One Creative, Energizing Reality

 - St. Athanasius - Early Church Father

Used in the Roman office of Readings for Trinity Sunday, this is an excerpt
from St. Athanasius' first letter to Serapion
(Ep. 1 ad Serapionem 28-30: PG 26, 594-95. 599).  Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, Egypt, in the 4th century and was one of the most important of the Early Church Fathers.  He is best known for his tirelessness proclamation of the full divinity of Christ during the troubled period of the Arian heresy, which denied Jesus' equality with the Father 

Light, radiance and grace are in the Trinity and from the Trinity

It will not be out of place to consider the ancient tradition, teaching and faith of the Catholic Church, which was revealed by the Lord, proclaimed by the apostles and guarded by the fathers. For upon this faith the Church is built, and if anyone were to lapse from it, he would no longer be a Christian either in fact or in name.

We acknowledge the Trinity, holy and perfect, to consist of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In this Trinity there is no intrusion of any alien element or of anything from outside, nor is the Trinity a blend of creative and created being. It is a wholly creative and energizing reality, self-consistent and undivided in its active power, for the Father makes all things through the Word and in the Holy Spirit, and in this way the unity of the holy Trinity is preserved. Accordingly, in the Church, one God is preached, one God who is above all things and through all things and in all things. God is above all things as Father, for he is principle and source; he is through all things through the Word; and he is in all things in the Holy Spirit.

Writing to the Corinthians about spiritual matters, Paul traces all reality back to one God, the Father, saying: Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of service but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in everyone.

Even the gifts that the Spirit dispenses to individuals are given by the Father through the Word. For all that belongs to the Father belongs also to the Son, and so the graces given by the Son in the Spirit are true gifts of the Father. Similarly, when the Spirit dwells in us, the Word who bestows the Spirit is in us too, and the Father is present in the Word. This is the meaning of the text: My Father and I will come to him and make our home with him. For where the light is, there also is the radiance; and where the radiance is, there too are its power and its resplendent grace.

This is also Paul’s teaching in his second letter to the Corinthians (13:13): The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.For grace and the gift of the Trinity are given by the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit. Just as grace is given from the Father through the Son, so there could be no communication of the gift to us except in the Holy Spirit. But when we share in the Spirit, we posses the love of the Father, the grace of the Son and the fellowship of the Spirit himself.
   http://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/library_article/123/Trinity_as_Three_Persons_One_Energizing_Reality_Athanasius.html  

For an overview of the Early Church Fathers, click here..

RESPONSORY  

 

Let us adore the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit;
– Let us praise and exalt God above all for ever.

Blessed be God in the firmament of heaven;
all praise, all glory to him for ever.
– Let us praise and exalt God above all for eve

Holy Trinity Sunday 2013 - Homily by Fr. A...

  

 Holy Trinity Sunday 2013, Benediction 

Sunday, 26 May 2013

The Most Holy Trinity – Solemnity – Year C 

Most Holy Trinity   May 2013 26

Prin. Celebrant, Fr. Aelred

Mass Introduction;

‘Most ancient of all mysteries, before your throne we lie; have mercy now most merciful, Most Holy Trinity.’

These words from a hymn for the feast of the Holy Trinity express very well what our sentiments should be for today’s celebration.

Homily

From Christmas to Pentecost the Church’s liturgy takes us through the major events in our Lord’s life His birth and ministry., His passion and crucifixion, His resurrection, ascension and the sending of the Holy Spirit on the apostles During this time, but in a more subtle manner, the nature of the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit is also being revealed to us. That is why the Church asks us on this one Sunday of the year to reflect on this central mystery of our faith, rather than a particular incident in the life of Jesus.

In the OT a popular theme with biblical authors was that of Wisdom. At an early stage, wisdom was largely a practical matter, counsels about how to succeeded in this life, or how to cope with suffering and loss. Then Israel realised that such qualities were a gift if God and could only come from him, and that these same qualities are in God to a supreme degree. It became common for wisdom to be personified. Today’s reading from Proverbs looks at the role of Lady Wisdom in creation. This speculation about wisdom can be seen as a groping towards the revelation of the mystery of the Trinity.

In the Gospels, many hints about the Holy Trinity are given us. Jesus is conceived of a Virgin through the Holy Spirit, or out-going love of God the Most High. The birth’s miraculous manner prompts us to call the Child the Son of God.

At the Baptism the Spirit is manifested descending on the Son, and and the Father’s voice is heard. And at the Last Supper in St. John’s gospel, we are given some of the most beautiful and profound chapters in the whole of the NT about the inner life of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

For St Paul Christian life is Trinitarian. Through our relationship with the Son, we have access to the Father, who sends us the Holy Spirit. We are caught up into the life of the Being who is beyond imagination, but whom Scripture tells us is love itself. And in Christ the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.

So the Christian revelation gives us a glimpse into the heart of the Godhead itself. It shows us a life of interpersonal relationships spirit in outpouring love. A life of unimaginable richness. And it tells us that our own human fulfilment is found at the deepest level by entering into these loving interpersonal relationships, with God and with one another.

Although Christians share in the indwelling life of the Trinity, we must not think of the omnipresent God constantly watching us like the ubiquitous security camera. Rather, God watches over us, an altogether more lovely feeling. This awareness that the Triune God is watching over us comfort in times of sadness, strength in times of weakness, and hope in times of despair.

Prayers; conclusion;

Heavenly Father’s,

Guide our wayward hearts,

For we know that left to ourselves

we cannot do our will.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

The Rose of the Trinity by William

The Rose of the Trinity

Trinity Day Greetings.

Thank you, William,

The words go with the Red Roses at the altar.

....Donald.

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William W...
To: Donald ...  
Sent: Saturday, 25 May 2013, 20:01
Subject: The Rose of the Trinity

Dear Father Donald,

 

If I may...

 

There is one form in nature that always speaks to me of the Trinity  - the Rose, which grows strongly from hidden depths to flower in the life of mankind: in form it represents to me the Presence of the Godhead.

 

Its scent is the pervading presence of the Holy Spirit which lingers to draw our senses to its beauty; its short lived petals which fall at our feet in exquisite gentleness and draw our personal attention and attraction, petals that describe the rose to us and through which we praise and most remember it - its beauty, the human life of Our Lord, the Son of God: and then the stem, revealing its source of life, its very substance, proceeding from the root of the hidden ground of love, that is, the Father.

 

In the Eucharist a fallen petal is held in our hand - the very life of the Godhead Whom we adore in this exquisite flower before us.

 

O Heart of God hidden in the Rose!

 

... in Our Lord,

William

Trinity COMMENT

Dear William,
Thank you for Trinity heaven searching.
For the moment the PDF is not attachable in Blogspot, only as graphic..
It is good of you to revise it to Word format.
Your COMMENT keeps us up 'to awaken clarity of thought!'
Donald

Reflection on Conceptual Knowledge and Contemplation OF GOD
KNOWLEDGE (taken from the world, developed by sense, imagination)
Quiddity (of nature)	I AM A HUMAN BEING	GOD IS THE ETERNAL BEING
the inherent nature of someone or something.
REASON (progression of conceptual knowledge)
Essential (of essence)	I AM HUMAN	GOD IS ETERNAL
fundamental to the nature of something or someone
CONTEMPLATION (end of discursive reason)
Existential (of existence	.    I AM   .	GOD IS    .
affirming or implying the existence of a thing
	[# limited #]	< no limit >
	the essence limits	the essence of God
	the existence of	is identical to
	the creature	His existence
Exodus 3:14	↓
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM	↓	GOD IS
and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children	↓	EXISTENCE ITSELF
of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.	↓	"I AM THAT I AM”
	by creation >                originating from >    whence I came
	by divinisation >              absorbed into >      hence I AM

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William Wardle
To: Dom Donald.Nunraw
Sent: Monday, 18 June 2012, 12:18
Subject: [Blog] Breviary illustration - Exodus 3:14 (diagram)

Dear Father Donald,

Your Trinity Breviary etchings fascinate me, and I ponder the attached most lovingly for it represents the greatest mystery of all, and has me mesmerized! It sent me back into my RCIA folder for another diagram to awaken clarity of thought! I wonder if I might attach it to share with you. In it I tried to order my thoughts from reading an inspiring book on the Mysticism of the Cloud of Unknowing by William Johnston, in order to express the Existence of God alongside that of humanity, and in conclusion - by arriving at who we are, to consider Who God is.

From a gentle meander across a horizontal plain I ended up at a virtual cliff face!

Still wandering around the cloisters in the silent hours before dawn...

With my love in Our Lord,

William

PS. The breviary psalm at Lauds this morning set me before your burnished tabernacle, with the words "How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord God of hosts".

When I go for the shopping today, a little bit of the housekeeping will be spent in Boots Photoshop on prints of the Exposition I witnessed!