MOST HOLY TRINITY - 2025

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 1:8

PROVERBS 8:22-31

My Soul's Beloved,

Wisdom is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, and without it, it would be impossible to understand the Word of God. Wisdom guides us, inspires us, opens our minds to divine mysteries, and helps us penetrate to the extent that finite human beings can the heart, mind, and will of God, and impels us to obey joyfully and promptly. 

Without Wisdom, Beloved, we would be at the mercy of the world, the flesh, and the devil. Following and gratifying our senses, worshipping false gods, making false gods in our image and likeness, we would squander our lives and ignorant of the lavish and splendid gifts of God we would spend our short lives on earth on unworthy and sinful pursuits that would damn our immortal souls to hell eternally.

But thanks be to God and His everlasting mercies, Lord, we belong to You. Baptized into Your Body and as members of Your Church, Your life courses through us. Filled with Your Holy Spirit, we are united in love to the Triune God. Your Blood was shed for the whole world in remission for all our sins, and You make a Covenant of Blood with all who believe in the Good News and belong to You, co-heirs to the Kingdom of God. 

Wisdom reveals the heart, mind, and will of God and opens our whole being to the wonder of the love of God, who lavishes on His children all His wonderful gifts so we can delight in His love made visible and tangible to us in You and who keeps You alive in us through Your Spirit.

The Wisdom of God cries aloud:
The Lord created me when his purpose first unfolded,
before the oldest of his works.
From everlasting I was firmly set,
from the beginning, before earth came into being.
The deep was not, when I was born,
there were no springs to gush with water.
Before the mountains were settled,
before the hills, I came to birth;
before he made the earth, the countryside,
or the first grains of the world’s dust.
When he fixed the heavens firm, I was there,
when he drew a ring on the surface of the deep,
when he thickened the clouds above,
when he fixed fast the springs of the deep,
when he assigned the sea its boundaries
– and the waters will not invade the shore –
when he laid down the foundations of the earth,
I was by his side, a master craftsman,
delighting him day after day,
ever at play in his presence,
at play everywhere in his world,
delighting to be with the sons of men.

PSALM 8:4-9

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

When I see the heavens, the work of your hands,
the moon and the stars which you arranged,
what is man that you should keep him in mind,
Mortal man that you care for him?

Yet you have made him little less than a god;

with glory and honour you crowned him,
gave him power over the works of your hand,
put all things under his feet.

All of them, sheep and cattle,

yes, even the savage beasts,
birds of the air, and fish
that make their way through the waters.

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

ROMANS 5:1-5

My Soul's Beloved,

I struggle with exercising the virtue of patience during trials and suffering. I often betray that I am upset and sometimes short-tempered, because I am not mastered by love, even though I do love. 

Today's second reading not only convicts me, Lord, but reminds me that if I am a true disciple, I must pray and ask unceasingly that You bless me with the gift of perseverance, especially during trying times which I will receive only if I consciously and purposefully exercise the virtue of patience until it becomes second nature to me. Help me, Lord!

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God’s glory. But that is not all we can boast about; we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.

JOHN 16:12-15

My Soul's Beloved,

Today, the Church celebrates the glorious mystery of the Holy Trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is a divine Truth that the millions in the world do not understand - the mystery of Three in One and One in Three. This is because the world desires to limit God according to their finite and puny understanding. You are incomprehensible, limitless, and beyond anything the human mind can fathom. Your mysteries are impenetrable to the mind and heart that is closed to the supreme power of God, for we are only creatures created by Him. 

From the beginning, the God who is One and the God who is Three laid the foundations and created the world for His glory. The Creator, by the power of Breath and the power of His Word, His Eternal Word, and all that God intended from all eternity, came to be.

The invisible God made Himself known first to our first parents, Adam and Eve, and after the fall, certain people chosen by Him throughout salvation history until the time when He chose Abraham, our father in faith, and through Him, His plan for all people in every nation begins to unfold.

He then sent You, my Lord, into the world through the virginal womb of Mary, Your Mother, the new Eve to undo the disobedience of that first woman, and You made the invisible God visible to us. After Your mission was completed - Your life, passion, death, and glorious resurrection and ascension into Heaven, as promised, You sent the Holy Spirit on Your Church and He abides in her and in each of us leading us into the Truth that sets us free and leads us to Heaven, our eternal home.

Thank You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - may You be known and loved by the whole world and so hasten the second coming of our Lord. Maranatha! Lord Jesus, maranatha!

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘I still have many things to say to you
but they would be too much for you now.
But when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
since he will not be speaking as from himself
but will say only what he has learnt;
and he will tell you of the things to come.
He will glorify me,
since all he tells you
will be taken from what is mine.
Everything the Father has is mine;
that is why I said:
All he tells you
will be taken from what is mine.’