THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY - 2021

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;
the God who is, who was, and who is to come. REV 1:18

DEUTERONOMY 4:32-34,39-40 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

There is one God in three persons - this a mystery that we will never fully understand in this life but we are called to meditate on it, exult in it and believe it.

God is our Father because He is our creator. In the beginning, God uttered His majestic Word, it thundered and reverberated from one end of heaven to the other. We heard the Word spoken from the heart of the fire of divine love which is God the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit who made possible the incarnation of the Son of God through the Virgin Mary is the One who redeemed and saved the world. 

Unlike the past, only those who hear the Incarnate Word and obey it will live. No god comes close to the Lord our God, who is One in Three Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Our God is Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier.

There is nothing that God cannot do and will not do for the children He loves so much He sent You, His only Son, to become one like us weak, human, miserable, frail, sinful creatures in order to give us divine life with the help and power of the Sanctifier, the Holy Spirit.

Beloved, God has prepared an eternal banquet for us in the presence of the angels. God desires us to know Him in the next life as intimately as we are known to Him now but in order to be worthy of this inheritance won for us on the Cross we are required to believe in the One God and Lord, there is no other. And we must keep His laws and His commandments in order that we may live happy and fruitful lives on earth and live forever with Him in the life that is to come.

PSALM 33:4-6,9,18-20,22 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

The Holy Trinity is revealed to us in the Old Testament and in the psalms. Each of the divine Persons in the Godhead has a separate function but each works in perfect unity and harmony within the Holy Trinity. Father, Son, and Spirit are perfect, complete, and distinct but they are always in sync and always though Three are always One.  

The Creator of all is God, the Word uttered from the depths of the Father is God who redeems and saves, and the Spirit if God for He is the Breath of the love of God that sanctifies and purifies. The Creator uttered the Word with His Breath and the heavens and the earth and the universe were made for the glory and honor of God in each of the divine Persons.

We are the people God has chosen for His own, and someday we have the wonderful expectation of living with Him eternally in heaven. 

Our soul is waiting for the Lord.
The Lord is our help and our shield.
May your love be upon us, O Lord,
as we place all our hope in you.

ROMANS 8:14-17 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

St. Paul reminds us that we need the Spirit of God given to us in Baptism to make us children of God. While people of other faiths look to God as Master the Holy Spirit makes us sons and daughters of the Most High God. It is only by virtue of our Baptism that we are privileged to address God as Abba, Daddy, Papa.

Our spirit, united and imbued with the Spirit of God, makes our body God's sanctuary and temple - we become God's dwelling place. And we are assured by our belief in You, His only Son, we are made heirs of God and co-heirs with You - but first, we must share in Your sufferings only then can we have a share in Your glory.

MATTHEW 28:16-20 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

Matthew one of the Twelve and an evangelist records that when the disciples set out to meet You at Your request at the mountain just before Your ascension into heaven, they fell down and worshipped You though some hesitated. This is very telling and a reminder to us all how much we need the Holy Spirit. 

It is only after Pentecost that they were set on fire with missionary zeal. They believed completely and they would willingly lay down their lives for the sake of the Gospel.

On this feast day of the Holy Trinity, the Church reminds us that each of the Persons in the Trinity in order to live holy and godly lives. If we are to preach the Gospel effectively as You have commanded us we need to be grounded in the love of the Father as Creator, the mercy and compassion of the Son as Redeemer, and the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit. Thank You, Lord, for Your comforting assurance that You will be with us always, to the end of time.