Greetings on this the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Readings: Dt 4:32-34, 39-40; Ps 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22; Rom 8:14-17; Mt 28:16-20
Notes
The reflection today is from the Liturgy of the Hours, Trinity Sunday, Morning Prayer.
A lovely supplemental reflection on the Trinity here: https://www.franciscanmedia.org/st-anthony-messenger/understanding-the-trinity/
Summary
- Come Holy Spirit, that we may show your fruit in our lives, charity, joy, peace, equanimity, kindness, generosity, long-suffering, patience, faithfulness, modesty, self-control and chastity.
- Father, all powerful, you have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts, so that we cry: Abba, Father!
- Christ Jesus, you sent the Paraclete, who proceeds from the Father to bear witness to you.
Reflection
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 Lord we pray. Amen.
Personal Reflection
Trinity Sunday comes after Pentecost Sunday as the Pentecost event brings into a fuller view the dynamic love that is God. The Lord holds nothing back from us, the entirety of Himself in a way we can experience fully given our sensory nature. Our second reading says it well: The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.
I know in my own life, I always did better and felt better with the approval of my Dad. In whatever the situation, if Dad was for me, what else mattered?
First Reading
This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.
Responsorial
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Upright is the word of the LORD,
and all his works are trustworthy.
He loves justice and right;
of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full.
Second Reading
You received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Gospel Acclamation
Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; to God who is, who was, and who is to come.
Gospel
Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry