1 and 1 and 1 is One...

"The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. 

All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One."  
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

"All three in a great dynamic of love, 
are so close that they are One God." ~ Fr. John Foley, S. J.

Trinity Sunday, officially "The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity," is one of the few feasts of the Christian Year that celebrates a reality and doctrine rather than an event or person. On Trinity Sunday we remember and honor the eternal God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Trinity Sunday is celebrated the Sunday after Pentecost, and lasts only one day, which is symbolic of the unity of the Trinity. The Eastern Churches have no tradition of Trinity Sunday, arguing that they celebrate the Trinity every Sunday. Westerners do as well, although they set aside a special feast day for the purpose.

"O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love

was it necessary that you should give
even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?

You gave us not only your Word
through the Redemption and in the Eucharist,
but you also gave Yourself
in the fullness of love for Your creature.

St Catherine of Siena

Painting above:  Holy Trinity ~ Jacquemart de Hesdin

O Sisters, if we would only comprehend the fact 
that while the Eucharistic Species remain within us, 
Jesus is there and working in us
inseparably with the Father and the Holy Spirit
and therefore the whole Holy Trinity is there."

St Mary Magdalene di Pazzi

"In the communion of grace with the Trinity, 
man's 'living area' is broadened

and raised up to the supernatural level of divine life."

Pope St John Paul II

Click here: What is the Trinity? - (2:24 mins) Bishop Robert Barron

Click here: 1 and 1 and 1 is One – A Homily for Trinity Sunday (Msgr Charles Pope)

Click here: you tube - holy trinity  (2:40 mins)

All glory be to the Father

and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

All Three in a great dynamic of love

“The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none.

All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

"All three in a great dynamic of love,

are so close that they are One God." ~ Fr. John Foley, S. J.

 

Trinity Sunday, officially "The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity," is one of the few feasts of the Christian Year that celebrates a reality and doctrine rather than an event or person. On Trinity Sunday we remember and honor the eternal God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Trinity Sunday is celebrated the Sunday after Pentecost, and lasts only one day, which is symbolic of the unity of the Trinity. The Eastern Churches have no tradition of Trinity Sunday, arguing that they celebrate the Trinity every Sunday. Westerners do as well, although they set aside a special feast day for the purpose.

 

 

“The veil of mystery has been torn asunder.

He is there, my God, infinite Unity, adorable Trinity,

under the appearance of a small piece of bread."

 

Bl. Dina Belanger

 

 

All glory be to the Father

and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Spring of life itself...

"...The inmost chamber of the human soul

Is favourite dwelling to the Trinity,

His heavenly throne right here on earth.

To free this heaven'ly realm from the hostile hand,

God's Son descended as the Son of Man

He gave His blood as ransom.

Within the heart of Jesus pierced with lances,

The realms of Heaven and earth become united.

And here we find the spring of life itself.

 

This is the heart of Trinity divine,

The center also of all human hearts.

Source of our life from God.

It draws us close with its mysterious might,

It keeps us safe within the Father's lap

And floods us with the Holy Spirit.

This heart beats in a tiny tabernacle

Where it remains in hidden mystery,

Within that orbit, silent, white.

That is Your royal throne, O Lord, on earth,

Which You have built for us, plainly to see,

It pleases You when we draw near....

Each morn You come to me at early Mass,

Your flesh and blood become my food and drink;

And wonders are accomplished...

How wondrous are the marvels of Your love,

We are amazed, we stammer and grow dumb,

For word and spirit fails us."


From the poem "I Shall Stay With You...,"

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

Beyond view

"Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view.

In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid:

sheltering Him, but sheltered in Him,

forming Him, but formed by Him ...

                          

When she pronounces the words: 'Be it done to me according to thy word', the Mother conceives the mystery from the Trinity, in order to give it to the Son.

The Son gives the word back to the Trinity by giving everything He has back to the Father in the Spirit. Then, after the Father has received it again, it is distributed to mankind by means of that extravagant expansioning —

the Eucharist and the Holy Spirit."

~ Adrienne von Speyr

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

 "All three in a great dynamic of love,

are so close that they are One God." ~ Fr. John Foley, S. J.

 

Trinity, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1518

Trinity Sunday, officially "The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity," is one of the few feasts of the Christian Year that celebrates a reality and doctrine rather than an event or person. On Trinity Sunday we remember and honor the eternal God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Trinity Sunday is celebrated the Sunday after Pentecost, and lasts only one day, which is symbolic of the unity of the Trinity. The Eastern Churches have no tradition of Trinity Sunday, arguing that they celebrate the Trinity every Sunday. Westerners do as well, although they set aside a special feast day for the purpose.

 

"O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love

was it necessary that you should give
even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?

 

You gave us not only your Word
through the Redemption and in the Eucharist,
but you also gave Yourself
in the fullness of love for Your creature."

 

St Catherine of Siena

 

 

“The goal of the Eucharist is precisely,

‘the communion of mankind with Christ

and, in Him, with the Father and with the Holy Spirit.’”

Pope Bl John Paul II

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the

Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning is now

and will be forever. AMEN.