Jun 15 Sun
Does God, One and Three, dwell in my soul in grace?
We have now received the Holy Spirit whom Jesus promised to his Church. The time has come for us to consider in a new light the most amazing of all God's revelations: the Blessed Trinity, the three divine Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In contemplating and rejoicing in the Blessed Trinity, we find the fullness of Christian life.
The three divine Persons have played a part in transforming us, and continue to do so.
Thus, we want to draw close to the Triune God, getting to know him and being filled with the sweetness of his abiding presence. We are no longer satisfied simply with contemplating God in his essential Unity: we want to love him and adore him, and converse with him, in the Trinity of the divine Persons.
St. Josemaría: “Address each person of the Blessed Trinity in turn, our Father recommended, and repeat without fear: I believe in God the Father, I believe in God the Son, I believe in God the Holy Spirit I hope in God the Father, I hope in God the Son, I hope in God the Holy Spirit I love God the Father, I love God the Son, I love God the Holy Spirit I believe in, I hope in and I love my holy Mother Mary, who is the Mother of God."
Father Almighty, eternal God: in the name of your Son, send your Holy Spirit upon the Church. The Holy Spirit guides the whole of creation, and especially human beings, to the love of the Father through Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God. The Church is constantly reminding us of this by the way all her prayers are directed "through Christ our Lord".
The liturgy helps us to feel a profound devotion to the Blessed Trinity. And we go “to the Blessed Trinity through Jesus, who has become man to redeem us from sin, and to make the Way easier for us, because he has a heart of flesh like ours: Christ is perfect God and perfect Man." We talk to each of the three Persons with filial piety, because the three of them together, in the oneness of their sanctifying activity, adopt us as children of God.
“As it is true that God created us, that He has redeemed us, that He loves us so much that He has given up his only-begotten Son for us, that He waits for us - every day! - as eagerly as the father of the prodigal son did, how can we doubt that He wants us to respond to him with all our love? The strange thing would be not to talk to God, to draw away and forget him, and busy ourselves in activities which are closed to the constant promptings of his grace."
God is with us. The Blessed Trinity dwells in our souls in grace. And so, despite our wretchedness, we can and should be continually conversing with God our Lord. Devotion to the Blessed Trinity is something that grows gradually from the very depths of our soul. God the Father nourishes our piety through the Son, in the Holy Spirit. We wish to increase our devotion to the Triune God by making better use every day of the traditional means that the Church offers us.
If we let ourselves be guided gently by him, the Holy Spirit will lead us, together with the whole Church, along the ways of God.