FEAST OF HOLY TRINITY

1. Pentecost closes one set of feasts. Feasts which recall the sacred history, the history of salvation. We started it with advent, Christmas, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost. The stage in Pentecost crowns them. (The day when the Church was Born).

With the feast of the Holy Trinity we begin a new set of feasts. The feasts which commemorate mysteries, Faith feasts, centered around the main, basic tenets of our religion. The first of these is the mystery of the Blessed Trinity.

2. The feast of the Holy Trinity is one of thanksgiving. We are thanking God for the blessing of Christmas and Easter. We are summing up the wonder we commemorated and in our little way re-lived at Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost.

The three persons of the Blessed Trinity participate and share in all these sacred events. The Father sent his son. St. Paul simply says: “God so loved the world as to give His only-begotten Son”. It’s the Father who called us to the Faith. Our lord left no doubt about this; He says: “No one can come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me” (John 6:44). And the son became man and lived among us. He gave us an abundance of His Life. I came that that they may have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10).



It’s Christ who returned to heaven after his resurrection and asked the Father to send us His Spirit to be our Teacher, our human Leader, our Guide and our Consoler, or Advocate. Today in our human approach to God we are thanking the Blessed Trinity for all these wonderful deeds.

3. The Feast is a family feast. The Divine family of the Blessed Trinity. We are celebrating the innocent life of God which finds its fulfillment in the relationship between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. We may perhaps choose to leave this to the mystics and contemplatives. Each of us has become a member of that divine family.

In Baptism we shared divine life. By this life we are the Father’s children, we are the brothers of Christ, destined to inherit heaven with Him. “Co-heirs with Christ” to quote St. Paul, by this life we are temples of the Holy Ghost, who “bides in” us. It’s this relationship which should change our lives to model them on that of Christ, who while being man, embodied in himself all that which is divine.



The Holy Trinity is invoked in all official prayers of the Church, and in particular in the Mass. The sacraments are also given in the name of the Trinity. We have a good practice of the beginning our actions with the sign of the cross. It’s a good reminder of the life within us, the life of the Blessed Trinity.



St. Francis Xavier, “O Most holy Trinity” please God the priest’s last prayer at our death bed will be: “Go forth from this world O Christian soul in the name of God the Father… In the name of Jesus Christ, in the name of the Holy Spirit…”



Blessed be the Holy Trinity and the undivided unity; we will give praise to him for He has shown mercy to us. Amen.