Blessed be God the Father and his only-begotten Son and the Holy Spirit: for he has shown that he loves us.
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Let us pray to our God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God, we praise you: Father all-powerful, Christ our Lord and Savior, Spirit of love. You reveal yourself in the depths of our being, drawing us to share in your life and your love. One God, three Persons, be near to the people formed in your image, close to the world your love brings to life. We ask you this, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God, true and living, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Today is Trinity Sunday, when we celebrate the essence of God as three in One, God in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Of course this deep revelation of Who God Is, is special to all of us who are Christians. Although we don't fully understand it with our intellects, we are made able by His Grace to spiritually understand it, and Him. As we are being transformed into His Image, in and through the action of the Trinitarian God, we become more and more able to grasp the significance of this mystery.
I have a personal connection to God as Trinity in that I was birthed into Christ in a church called Holy Trinity - and wait, that's not all! The man who opened the Gospel of Christ to me, who baptized and confirmed me, who was a deeply important early mentor and spiritual director to me, was a member of a religious order called The Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity - Fr. Killian Mooney, S.T. There Trinity Missions aren't there in Harlan any more - not for a long time, but there were there for quite a while and I was a product, so to speak, of their missions there. I'm grateful they were there and that Fr. Killian was there in the right place and right time to help usher me into the Kingdom. I could probably say a lot more about God as Trinity and our own nature as His Children, community, etc., but that's really all that I have for today. Peace.
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