Sunday, May 26
The Most Holy Trinity – Solemnity
Roman Ordinary calendar
Book of Deuteronomy 4,32-34.39-40.
Moses said to the people: “Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created man upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of?
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live?
Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with his strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the LORD, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.
You must keep his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you forever.”
Psalms 33(32),4-5.6.9.18-19.20.22.
Upright is the word of the LORD,
and all his works are trustworthy.
He loves justice and right;
of the kindness of the LORD the earth is full.
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made;
By the breath of his mouth all their host.
For he spoke, and it was made;
He commanded, and it stood forth.
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.
Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield,
May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us
who have put our hope in you.
Letter to the Romans 8,14-17.
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, “Abba, Father!”
The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 28,16-20.
The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.
When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.
Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923)
Abbot
The priesthood of Christ, p. Christ the ideal of the Priest
Eternal praise in the heart of the Trinity
What is this glory that the divine persons render to each other? In His essence God is not only great, magnus, but also the object of all praise. (Ps. 47:1) It is preeminently fitting that he should receive the glory due His majesty. It is fitting that He be glorified in himself by a praise corresponding to the immensity of power and wisdom, and of love which are in Him.
The Father engenders the Son, from all eternity He communicates to Him that supreme gift, the life and the perfection of the divinity. He communicates to Him all that He is in himself except that which is proper to Him, His paternity. Being His perfect substantial image, the Word is the “the splendor of the Glory of the Father.’ (Heb. 1:3). Born of the focus of all light, His brilliance is reflected back like an unbroken canticle towards Him from whom He comes. “All things are mine and all that is mine is yours” (Jn 17:10) Thus by the natural impulse of His filiation the Son receiprocates to the Father all that He has from Him. The Holy Spirit, who is charity, has His exclusive source of origin in the love between the Father and the Son. This union of infinite love between the three persons effects the eternal communication of life in the bosum of the trinity, Such is the Glory which God renders to Himself in the sacred intimacy which is His eternal life.
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