Feast of the Holy Trinity and Mary

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

This Sunday, we celebrate the great Feast of the Holy Trinity:

The Feast of the Holy Trinity is an opportunity to ponder Mary living the great joy of Pentecost. Her relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit continued to grow after Pentecost – as did that of all the disciples. They had received “power from on high”, and Mary was to care for the young Church, as she had cared for Jesus!

The Indwelling of the Trinity had been infused into the soul of Mary from her Immaculate Conception, and Mary continued growing in her fullness of Grace. When the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and Jesus became flesh in her womb, what a wonder! How humbly and lovingly her “Yes” continued, and now she continues to “mother” Him in every soul who receives Him!

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 260, we read:

The ultimate end of the divine economy is the entry of God’s creatures into the perfect unity of the Blessed Trinity. (cf John 17:21-23). But even now we are called to be a dwelling for the Most Holy Trinity: “If a man loves me”, says the Lord, “he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him”…

Too few Catholics, it seems to me, are aware of our call into the perfect unity of the Blessed Trinity. Too few have been taught or remember what the Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us in paragraph 265:

By the grace of Baptism, “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” we are called to share in the life of the Blessed Trinity, here on earth in the obscurity of faith, and after death in eternal life…

For more, see HERE

 

[Vico]

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HE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY, CYCLE A Opening prayer:
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 through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

And at each Mass

The Deacon, or the Priest at the Altar pours water into the Chalice and prays:

By the mystery of this water and wine
may we come to share in the divinity of Christ
who humbled himself to share in our humanity.

 

[MariaChristi]

Dear Vico,

Thanks so much for posting those prayers! The Opening Prayer is often a beautiful invitation as is the one for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity which we pray this coming Sunday. Hopefully people will be attentive to what the priest prays for all of us in that prayer.

Thanks also for posting the prayer which the deacon or priest prays as he pours the small drop of water into the chalice of wine. This prayer is seldom said aloud now but I have always loved that prayer from years past, and in the translation from the Latin in my Missal, I memorized these words: “By the commingling of this water and wine, may we come to share in the divinity of Christ Who humbled Himself to share in our humanity.” What exquisite symbolism for us human persons as mere drops of water to be joined with the Majestic Wine which will be changed into the Blood of Christ! Jesus humbly came to share in our humanity and to give us a share in His Divine Life.

God so loved the world He sent His son, born of a woman by the power of His Holy Spirit. All praise and thanksgiving be to You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! All glory and Honor forever and ever! Amen.

Mary, Praise of the Trinity, Mother of the Church, pray for us.