Commentary for Readings on May 27, 2018
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The cardinal dogma, on which everything in Christianity is based, is that of the Blest Trinity in whose name all Christians are baptized. The feast of the Blest Trinity needs to be understood and celebrated as a prolongation of the mysteries of Christ and as the solemn expression of our faith in this triune life of the Divine Persons, to which we have been given access by Baptism and by the Redemption won for usa by Christ. Only in heaven shall nosotros properly sympathize what it means, in union with Christ, to share as sons in the very life of God.
The feast of the Blest Trinity was introduced in the ninth century and was only inserted in the general calendar of the Church building in the fourteenth century by Pope John XXII. Merely the cultus of the Trinity is, of course, to be found throughout the liturgy. Constantly the Church causes us to praise and adore the thrice-holy God who has and so shown His mercy towards u.s.a. and has given the states to share in His life.
The banquet of St. Augustine of Canterbury, which is ordinarily historic today, is superseded by the Sunday liturgy.
Click here for commentary on the readings in the Extraordinary Grade of the Roman Rite.
Trinity Lord's day
The dogma of religion which forms the object of the feast is this: In that location is one God and in this ane God there are three Divine Persons; the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God. Yet there are non three Gods, but one, eternal, incomprehensible God! The Father is not more than God than the Son, neither is the Son more than God than the Holy Spirit. The Father is the beginning Divine Person; the Son is the 2nd Divine Person, begotten from the nature of the Father from eternity; the Holy Spirit is the 3rd Divine Person, proceeding from the Father and the Son. No mortal can fully fathom this sublime truth. Just I submit humbly and say: Lord, I believe, help my weak religion.
Why is this feast celebrated at this particular time? It may exist interpreted as a finale to all the preceding feasts. All three Persons contributed to and shared in the work of redemption. The Father sent His Son to earth, for "God so loved the globe as to requite His only-begotten Son." The Begetter chosen us to the faith. The Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, became human being and died for us. He redeemed us and made u.s.a. children of God. He ever remains the liturgist par excellence to whom we are united in all sacred functions. After Christ's ascension the Holy Spirit, however, became our Teacher, our Leader, our Guide, our Consoler. On solemn occasions a thanksgiving Te Deum rises spontaneously from Christian hearts.
The feast of the Most Holy Trinity may well exist regarded as the Church building's Te Deum of gratitude over all the blessings of the Christmas and Easter seasons; for this mystery is a synthesis of Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Rise and Pentecost. This banquet, which falls on the first Lord's day after Pentecost, should brand us mindful that actually every Sunday is devoted to the honor of the Most Holy Trinity, that every Sunday is sanctified and consecrated to the triune God. Lord's day after Sunday nosotros should call up in a spirit of gratitude the gifts which the Blest Trinity is bestowing upon us. The Male parent created and predestined united states of america; on the starting time twenty-four hours of the week He began the piece of work of cosmos. The Son redeemed usa; Sunday is the "Day of the Lord," the 24-hour interval of His resurrection. The Holy Spirit sanctified us, made usa His temple; on Sunday the Holy Spirit descended upon the baby Church building. Sunday, therefore, is the day of the Most Holy Trinity.
Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch
Symbols of the Trinity: Equilateral Triange; Circle of Eternity; Three interwoven Circles; Triangle in Circle; Circle within Triangle; Interwoven Circumvolve and Triangle; 2 Triangles interwoven in shape of Star of David; 2 Triangles in shape of Star of David interwoven with Circle; Trefoil; Trefoil and Triangle; Trefoil with points; Triquetra; Triquetra and circle; Shield of the Holy Trinity; Iii Fishes linked together in shape of a triangle; Cross and Triangle overlapping; Fleur de Lys; St. Patrick's Shamrock.
Things to Practise:
- Depending on the ages of family members, research symbols of the Trinity and create something for the centerpiece of your family unit table, or something for your family chantry, such every bit a pocket-sized banner or poster. It can be as little every bit a 4 x 6 photograph or something to employ every twelvemonth every bit a backdrop or wall hanging.
- Remember of unlike foods to serve that can reflect the symbolism of the Trinity. One example is clover leaf rolls. These rolls are formed with 3 balls of dough put into 1 hole of the muffin tin for each roll. They are easy to make. Use your favorite roll recipe (you can even buy frozen staff of life or roll dough), or search on the Internet for one of many examples.
- The Directory on Popular Piety explains some of the pious exercises related to the devotion of the Holy or Blessed Trinity. Three very uncomplicated prayers are the Sign of the Cross, Gloria Patri (Celebrity be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, etc.) and the Trisagion (meaning "thrice holy"): "Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, Have mercy on us." This is just one version, there are many others, and information technology is unremarkably constitute in the Eastern liturgies.
Commentary for the Readings in the Extraordinary Form:
Trinity Lord's day
"Blessed be the Holy Trinity" (Introit) "in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Gospel).
The Well-nigh Adorable Trinity! "All things" good, in nature and grace, menstruation from and return to the Trinity; "from Him," God the Father, our Creator; "through Him" God the Son, our Redeemer; "unto Him," God the Holy Spirit, our Sanctifier (Epistle).
May we ever be "on the alarm" to the presence of the Trinity in our souls! At Baptism we became the adopted "sons of the Father," "co-heirs with Christ," "temples of the Holy Spirit!"
In our offering of Holy Mass, "we will give celebrity to" the Trinity (Introit), and God will show "mercy to us" (Offertory, Communion). On this Banquet we should also renew our baptismal vows that this "profession of our faith. . .may be of profit to our health, in trunk and soul" (Postcommunion).
—Excerpted from My Sunday Missal, Confraternity of the Precious Blood
Source: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2018-05-27
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