Trinity Sunday

Today the Church celebrates Trinity Sunday. On this day we are reminded that God has revealed His innermost secret: He is an eternal exchange of love between three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Just as astounding, He invites us to share in that exchange of love for all eternity!

Throughout the world today, Catholic Christians prayed this prayer below as the Opening Prayer for Mass:

Father, you sent your Word to bring us truth, and your Spirit to make us holy.
Through them we come to know the mystery of your life.
Help us to worship you, one God in three Persons, by proclaiming and living our faith in You.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Pope Benedict has written beautifully about the Trinity:

Today we contemplate the Most Holy Trinity as Jesus introduced it to us. He revealed to us that God is love "not in the onness of a single Person, but in the Trinity of one substance. He is the Creator and merciful Father; He is the Only-Begotten Son, eternal Wisdom incarnate, who died and rose for us; and 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, and the Spirit is love. God is wholly and only love, the purest, infinite and eternal love.

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 Him we love and move and have our being," said Saint Paul 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 relattionship, and we live to love and to be loved. Borrowing an analogy from biology, we could say that imprinted upon his "genome" the human bears a profound mark of the Trinity, of God as love.

The Virgin Mary, in her docile humility, became the handmaid 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...

Thank you Pope Benedict, for helping us understand something of this profound mystery - God as triune. As Mary said yes to accepting the Father's will and so became a very temple of Christ Himself, may we too say yes to the Father's will and so too become a temple of Christ Himself. Come Lord Jesus.

Enjoy this beautiful Memorial Day Weekend. Pray in gratitude for all those who gave their lives that we might live free. And pray for all those who now protect that freedom in service to our country. And now go be a Saint!