A Trinity Sunday Thought to Start the Week Off Right
Trinity Sunday arrives on the last day of May, Our Blessed Mother's special month. How fortuitous!
Why fortuitous? On so many Trinity Sundays, I've listened to any number of priests attempt, at times with a modicum of success, to explain, or at least help me understand the nature of the Most Holy Trinity. In the end, of course, the Trinity remains a great mystery, one that we will only really grasp when we've left his world and - by the grace of God - entered the very Presence of the Holy Trinity in Heaven. Meanwhile, we'd do well to turn to Our Lady as the Mother of God to help us draw closer to the Holy Trinity for as long as we're here on earth working our way to Heaven.
Over the last two weeks, we've presented a series of posts on Mary as both Mother of God and Mother to us all. (Here, Here, Here, and Here.)
The Mother of God became the Mother of us all. We Catholics know and understand this. Our knowledge and understanding informs our daily thoughts and actions. That's why we pray to her, and through her to God.
So as we say goodbye to May today, and celebrate the great feast of the Holy Trinity, let's remember these words of St Bonaventure:
“God could make a bigger world or a wider sky, but He could not raise a pure creature higher than Mary, for the dignity of Mother of God is the highest dignity that can be conferred on a creature.”
How awesome, how wonderful, how comforting that we have a Mother who is Mother of God! Let's turn to her with reverence this last day of her special month. What better way than to pray the Hail Mary? What better way to pray her glorious prayer than with the music of Franz Schubert? And who has interpreted this beautiful anthem to Mary better than the great Luciano Pavarotti?
Why fortuitous? On so many Trinity Sundays, I've listened to any number of priests attempt, at times with a modicum of success, to explain, or at least help me understand the nature of the Most Holy Trinity. In the end, of course, the Trinity remains a great mystery, one that we will only really grasp when we've left his world and - by the grace of God - entered the very Presence of the Holy Trinity in Heaven. Meanwhile, we'd do well to turn to Our Lady as the Mother of God to help us draw closer to the Holy Trinity for as long as we're here on earth working our way to Heaven.
Over the last two weeks, we've presented a series of posts on Mary as both Mother of God and Mother to us all. (Here, Here, Here, and Here.)
The Mother of God became the Mother of us all. We Catholics know and understand this. Our knowledge and understanding informs our daily thoughts and actions. That's why we pray to her, and through her to God.
So as we say goodbye to May today, and celebrate the great feast of the Holy Trinity, let's remember these words of St Bonaventure:
“God could make a bigger world or a wider sky, but He could not raise a pure creature higher than Mary, for the dignity of Mother of God is the highest dignity that can be conferred on a creature.”
How awesome, how wonderful, how comforting that we have a Mother who is Mother of God! Let's turn to her with reverence this last day of her special month. What better way than to pray the Hail Mary? What better way to pray her glorious prayer than with the music of Franz Schubert? And who has interpreted this beautiful anthem to Mary better than the great Luciano Pavarotti?
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