#trinity sunday

Lakota Trinity by the late artist Father John Giuliani

"In this image, the great Father—Wakan Tanka—appears with a full headdress of eagle feathers in a halo of light.

His open hands deliver the Son, a victorious Sioux warrior whose raised arms and open hands reflect a similar gesture of self-giving.

He wears a richly decorated buckskin war shirt—heavily fringed, beaded and painted with the four color circle of the universe as its breast plate.

The eagle represents the Holy Spirit and completes the spiral of trinitarian love and unity."

“A great mystery, a mystery of love, an ineffable mystery, before which words must give way to the silence of wonder and worship. A divine mystery that challenges and involves us, because a share in the Trinitarian life was given to us through grace, through the redemptive Incarnation of the Word and the gift of the Holy Spirit!”

- Pope John Paul II, in regards to the mystery of the Holy Trinity

May you all have a blessed Trinity Sunday! Find some time to give thanks for the most glorious mystery of the Trinity today! Here’s my favorite prayer for Trinity Sunday:

Glory be to you, Father, who created us in love and never stopped calling us home.

Glory be to you, Son, who became one of us so that we might share in your divine life.

Glory be to you, Holy Spirit, who dwells in us and prays within us when we do not know how to pray.

Most Holy Trinity, one God in three Persons, though you are forever beyond our understanding, we worship and adore you. We rest peacefully in you, and in you alone.

May every Sign of the Cross we make be more than a gesture may it be an act of faith, a prayer, a surrender.

SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY

"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one." -1 John 5:7-8

The feast of the Most Holy Trinity, celebrates the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is officially known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.

Prior to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, it marked the end of a three-week period during which church weddings were forbidden. The period began on Rogation Sunday, the fifth Sunday after Easter.

In the early Church, no special Office or day was assigned for the Holy Trinity. When the Arian heresy was spreading, the Fathers prepared an Office with canticles, responses, a Preface, and hymns, to be recited on Sundays. In the Sacramentary of Gregory the Great there are prayers and the Preface of the Trinity. During the Middle Ages, especially during the Carolingian period, devotion to the Blessed Trinity was a highly important feature of private devotion and inspired several liturgical expressions. Sundays are traditionally dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

Pope John XXII ordered the feast for the entire Church on the first Sunday after Pentecost and established it as a Double of the Second Class. It was raised to the dignity of a primary of the first class on July 24, 1911, by Pope Pius X. Since it was after the first great Pentecost that the doctrine of the Trinity was proclaimed to the world, the feast becomingly follows that of Pentecost.