The Holy Trinity is a fundamental belief of Christianity. This weekend the Church celebrates Holy Trinity Sunday to focus on the power and majesty of three in one -Almighty God.
God the Father is the Creator and source of all life.
God the Son is the Redeemer who saved humanity through his death and resurrection.
God the Holy Spirit is our Sanctifier, guiding and inspiring us on our journey in life.
As we recite the Glory Be as a Church, we reaffirm God has existed from the beginning and will forever without end for His love endures forever.
Take seriously the invitation attributed to St. Ambrose, “Rise, you who were lying fast asleep…. Rise and hurry to the Church: here is the Father, here is the Son, here is the Holy Spirit.”
Saint Ambrose was a bishop and is a Doctor of the Church from the fourth century.
In 2000, Pope St. John Paul II said the church is “a people made one with the unity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
“The one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church is the People of God, the Body of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. These three biblical images point to the Trinitarian dimension of the Church.”
As Bishop Mark Brennan and our pastors call us to evangelize don’t overcomplicate the task, call upon the Trinity to empower and guide us.
Know that since Baptism the Spirit dwells in each of us with the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit was strengthened in us at Confirmation and will teach us everything (John 14:26) “to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” Matthew 28:19.
In his prayer to the Trinity, St. Francis de Sales gives us a way to consecrate ourselves to God – “my memory and my actions to God the Father; my understanding and my words to God the Son; and my will and my thoughts to God the Holy Spirit.”
Let us praise, serve, and love God and the Church, knowing we are strengthened by the Trinity.
(Trinity wooden statue, circa 1892 in Weston, Missouri. The painting -Trinity with the Dead Christ- is by Lodovico Carracci, c. 1590., in Vatican Museums).
