NEWSLETTER INSERTS FOR TRINITY SUNDAY

‘The triune God is a communion of love, and the family is its living reflection.  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.

‘To the Trinity be praise! God is music, God is the life that nurtures every creature in its kind. Our God is the song of the angel throng and the splendour of secret ways hid from all humankind. But God our life is the life of all’

Hildegard of Bingen, ‘To the Trinity’

‘O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature’.

St Catherine of Siena

‘A spirituality of communion indicates above all the heart's contemplation of the mystery of the Trinity dwelling in us, and whose light we must also be able to see shining on the face of the brothers and sisters around us. In the words of St John Paul II: ‘A spirituality of communion means an ability to think of our brothers and sisters as "those who are a part of me". This makes us able to share their joys and sufferings, to sense their desires and attend to their needs, to offer them deep and genuine friendship.’

Pope John Paul II, Novo Millenio Ineunte, 43.

'Never has humanity had such power over itself'.

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas.

'In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas.

'Human dignity does not depend on a person’s abilities, wealth, or position in life, nor on the right or wrong choices made; instead, it is a gift that precedes and transcends each person, endowed by God as an expression of his unfailing love.”

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas.

‘Many people don’t believe in God but do believe in love. Yet, Christians believe that God is love. Therefore, every time we believers accept, welcome and love others we help bridge that gap between faith in love and faith in God. And when we do, God becomes real, intimately close and personal. Here is the mystery of light, love and beauty in which we live and move. We are within and not outside of the circle of love and life shared by the Lover, the Beloved and the Love between them – the life of Father, Son and Holy Spirit’.

Fr Billy Swan