NEWSLETTER INSERTS - FOR TRINITY SUNDAY

“The Triune God is a communion of love, and the family is its living reflection.  Saint John Paul II shed light on this when he said, ‘Our God in his deepest mystery is not solitude, but a family, for he has within himself fatherhood, sonship and the essence of the family, which is love.  That love, in the divine family, is the Holy Spirit”.

Pope Francis, The Joy of Love, 11.

“I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity; through belief in the Threeness; Through confession of the Oneness of the Creator of creation”.

St Patrick’s Breastplate

“For there is not, nor ever was, any other God-there was none before him and there shall not be any after him-besides him who is God the Father unbegotten: without a source, from him everything else takes its beginning. He is, as we say, the one who keeps hold of all things. And his Son, Jesus Christ, whom we profess to have always existed with the Father. He was spiritually with the Father before the world came into being; begotten of the Father before the beginning of anything in a way that is beyond our speech. And through him all things were made, all things visible and invisible. He was made man, and having conquered death was taken back into the heavens to the Father. And [the Father] has bestowed on him all power above every name in heaven and on earth and under the earth, so that every tongue may confess that [our] Lord and God is Jesus Christ in whom we believe. And we look forward to his coming, in the time that is soon to be, when he will be judge of the living and the dead, who will repay each one according to his works. And [the Father] has plentifully poured upon us the Holy Spirit, the gift and pledge of immortality who makes those who believe and listen into sons of God the Father and fellow heirs with Christ. [This is] who we confess and adore, One God in Trinity of sacred name”.

St Patrick’s Confessio

“O my God, Trinity whom I adore, let me entirely forget myself that I may abide in you, still and peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity; let nothing disturb my peace nor separate me from you, O my unchanging God, but that each moment may take me further into the depths of your mystery ! Pacify my soul! Make it your heaven, your beloved home and place of your repose; let me never leave you there alone, but may I be ever attentive, ever alert in my faith, ever adoring and all given up to your creative action”.

St Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Today’s feast of the Most Holy Trinity takes us to the heart of an essential truth of our faith, namely that we are within the mystery of the God who is love and not outside a cold, distant and impersonal deity. The Christian has been baptised ‘In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit’ but also ‘into the mystery of love that is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit’. It is in this sense that mystics like Julian of Norwich could say that we are ‘Enfolded by the Father, enfolded by the Son and enfolded by the Holy Spirit’. In this sense, we are not just in the presence of God but live within the communion of love who is God”.

Fr Billy Swan