Dear Parish Family, this weekend is the Feast of the
Holy Trinity. We celebrate God the Father, God the Son
and God the Holy Spirit, three persons but One God. I
found this article explaining what this means for us as
baptized sons and daughters of God and brothers and
sisters in Christ. This article is from a Catholic publica-
tion called the Word Among Us. Please have a enjoyable
and relaxing summer!! As always my love and prayers,
~~Fr. Steve

Every time we bless ourselves, we proclaim the mys-
tery of the Trinity. Only the Christian religion teaches
that there are three Persons in one God. It is a mystery
we will never be able to fully comprehend. Yet it is the
heart and soul of our Christian life.

St. Ignatius of Loyola once had a revelation of the
Trinity as a harmonic chord, with three notes
being played at the same time but forming one
sound. This revelation was so overwhelming that after
receiving it, he wept tears of joy all day. God is not an
isolated, contained being. His nature is to be communal.
The one being of God is really the interrelationship be-
tween the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

As Christians, we share in this Trinitarian love
and life. God is not some impersonal force living far
away from us in some other universe. He sent his Son to
become one of us so that we could share in his eternal
and all-consuming personal life. As disciples of Jesus, we
are invited to live within the love of the Holy Trinity. At
baptism, we received the intimate, divine life of the Fa-
ther, Son, and Holy Spirit. Through the death and resur-
rection of Jesus, we become sons and daughters of the
Father. By the power of the Holy Spirit, he is our Father,
just as Jesus is our brother.

We should never view the Trinity as only an in-
tellectual concept that has no practical bearing
on our lives. The Trinity is our life. Every day we can
affirm this truth. We live within the love offered to us
each moment by a merciful God who wants us within the
very center of his being. To gain us this privilege, the Fa-
ther sacrificed his Son on the cross. The Holy Spirit has
been given to us as a foretaste of the heavenly joys that
await us. On this feast day of the Trinity, let us rejoice at
the gift of life and love that has been so freely offered.

Why not spend time today praying to each Per-
son of the Trinity? Thank the Father, your Creator, for
the magnificence of the earth and for the life he has given
to you. Thank the Son, Jesus Christ, for his obedience to
his Father’s will and for the shedding of his blood, which
has redeemed you. Thank the Holy Spirit, who sanctifies
you by his presence and who inflames your heart with
love for God. And rejoice that God loves you passionately
and unconditionally, and that he wants to share his life
with you.