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."
POPE FRANCIS ANGELUS Trinity Sunday, 30 May 2021 Dear Brothers and Sisters,
On this feast day in which we celebrate God: the mystery of the one God. And this God is the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Three persons, but God is one! The Father is God; the Son is God; the Spirit is God. But they are not three gods: it is one God in three Persons. It is a mystery that Jesus Christ revealed to us: the Holy Trinity. Today we pause to celebrate this mystery, because the Persons are not adjectives of God, no. They are real, diverse, different Persons; they are not — as that philosopher used to say — ‘emanations of God’, no, no! They are Persons. There is the Father to whom I pray with the Our Father; there is the Son, who gave me redemption, justification; there is the Holy Spirit who abides in us and inhabits the Church. And this speaks to our heart because we find it encompassed in that expression of Saint John which summarizes all of Revelation: “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8-16). The Father is love; the Son is love; the Holy Spirit is love. And inasmuch as he is love, God, while being one alone, is not solitude but communion, among the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Because love is essentially a gift of self, and in its original and infinite reality it is the Father who gives himself by generating his Son, who in turn gives himself to the Father, and their mutual love is the Holy Spirit, the bond of their unity. It is not easy to understand, but we can live this mystery, all of us, we can live it a great deal.
This mystery of the Trinity was revealed to us by Jesus himself. He showed us the face of God as merciful Father; he presented Himself, true man, as the Son of God and Word of the Father, the Saviour who gives his life for us; and he spoke of the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son, the Spirit of Truth, the Paraclete Spirit — we spoke last Sunday about this word, ‘Paraclete’ — meaning Consoler and Advocate. And when Jesus appeared to the Apostles after the Resurrection, Jesus invited them to evangelize “all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Mt 28:19).
Today’s celebration, therefore, makes us contemplate this marvelous mystery of love and of light from which we come and toward which our earthly journey is guided.
In the message of the Gospel and in every form of Christian mission, one cannot overlook this unity among us to which Jesus calls, following the unity of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: one cannot overlook this unity. The beauty of the Gospel asks to be lived — unity — and witnessed in the harmony among us, who are so diverse! And this unity, I dare say, is essential to Christians: it is not an attitude, a manner of speaking, no; it is essential, because it is the unity that arises from love, from the mercy of God, from the justification of Jesus Christ and from the presence of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
Mary Most Holy, in her simplicity and humility, reflects the Beauty of the Triune God, because she fully welcomed Jesus into her life. May she sustain our faith; may she make us worshippers of God and servants of our brothers and sisters.
FAUSTI - "Go therefore and make disciples all peoples," Jesus says to the eleven. When His Mission is over, those who have met Him begin their journey. It is His own of Son, who testifies the Love of the Father to the brothers who do not yet know Him. What the Nazorean offered to Israel, the "Nazoreans" offer to all peoples. Those who, in Him, have discovered their own name of son, realize it, like Him, by going towards their brothers, until that the Name of the Father in heaven is sanctified on the whole earth. The passage is a synthetic vision of the entire book of Matthew. Like the finale of a symphony, it reprises and blends into a single harmony the themes developed in His Gospel. Those who are sent are not "masters": One alone is the Master. They are and remain always "disciples", who learn! They are not masters, but listeners of the Wisdom of the Son, veiled to the wise and intelligent, but revealed to infants. And they are eleven, not twelve, one is absent. The Community is structurally imperfect: sin and betrayal are always present, even in those who listen to the Word of God: sin and betrayal are always present, even in those who listen to the Word. Matthew knows this: that is why he insists, even here, that it is necessary to put it into practice, without discounts. The text, as always, is addressed to the readers, so that they too may have the experience of the first disciples. They must go to Galilee, to the mountain indicated to them by Jesus. There they see Him and adore Him. Doubt is also part of the encounter, of which faith represents the overcoming. Those who go to the mountain know the Son and His own power is given to them. It is that of doing what He says, of forgiving and overcoming evil. He has shown this, with great power and glory, in the sign of the Son of Man :the Cross! The Apostles are not to teach, but to make all men disciples of the one Master: the Spirit who guides in the Truth of the Son. Their mission is to communicate to others the same power that Jesus communicated to them: that of listening and doing the Word, in order to become a people that gives the fruit of the Kingdom. Jesus came to immerse us in the Father of Life, of Whom we had rejected the Name, losing our own. It is in the Name of the Son, in His person, that we are in the Father! It is in the Name of the Spirit, mutual Love between the Father and the Son, that we are inserted in the Trinity, participants in the Life of God. The Son is forever Our Brother: His Name is God-with-us. His being with us makes our being with Him possible. Time is a journey whose aim is to be with the One who has always and forever been with us. This will be when, through the witness of the disciples, we all become children and brothers.
"O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me forget myself entirely so to establish myself in you, unmovable and peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing be able to trouble my peace or make me leave you, O my unchanging God, but may each minute bring me more deeply into your mystery! Grant my soul peace. Make it your heaven, your beloved dwelling and the place of your rest. May I never abandon you there, but may I be there, whole and entire, completely vigilant in my faith, entirely adoring, and wholly given over to your creative action.
O my beloved Christ, crucified for love, I would like to be a bride of Your Heart; I would like to cover You with glory and ask You to clothe me with Yourself, to immerse my soul in all the movements of Your Soul, to submerge me, to invade me, to replace you in me, so that my life may be only an irradiation of your life. Come into my Soul as Adorer, as Repairer and as Savior.
O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life listening to you; I want to make myself all docility to learn everything from you. Then, through all the nights, all the emptiness, all the helplessness, I want to stare always at You and remain under Your great light. O my beloved Star, Enchant me, that I may never again leave from the splendor of your rays.
O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, descend upon me that He may make my soul like an incarnation of the Word, and that I may be for Him an addition of humanity in which He renews all His mystery.
And You, O Father, bend down over your little creature, cover her with your shadow, and look in her only as the Beloved in whom you have placed all your pleasure.
O my THREE, my All, my Bliss, infinite Solitude, Immensity in which I lose myself, I give myself up to You as a prey. Bury Yourself in me, that I may bury myself in You, waiting to come and contemplate, in Your light, the abyss of your greatness.
Book of Deuteronomy
RispondiElimina4,32-34.39-40.
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."
POPE FRANCIS ANGELUS Trinity Sunday, 30 May 2021
RispondiEliminaDear Brothers and Sisters,
On this feast day in which we celebrate God: the mystery of the one God. And this God is the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Three persons, but God is one! The Father is God; the Son is God; the Spirit is God. But they are not three gods: it is one God in three Persons. It is a mystery that Jesus Christ revealed to us: the Holy Trinity. Today we pause to celebrate this mystery, because the Persons are not adjectives of God, no. They are real, diverse, different Persons; they are not — as that philosopher used to say — ‘emanations of God’, no, no! They are Persons. There is the Father to whom I pray with the Our Father; there is the Son, who gave me redemption, justification; there is the Holy Spirit who abides in us and inhabits the Church. And this speaks to our heart because we find it encompassed in that expression of Saint John which summarizes all of Revelation: “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8-16). The Father is love; the Son is love; the Holy Spirit is love. And inasmuch as he is love, God, while being one alone, is not solitude but communion, among the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Because love is essentially a gift of self, and in its original and infinite reality it is the Father who gives himself by generating his Son, who in turn gives himself to the Father, and their mutual love is the Holy Spirit, the bond of their unity. It is not easy to understand, but we can live this mystery, all of us, we can live it a great deal.
This mystery of the Trinity was revealed to us by Jesus himself. He showed us the face of God as merciful Father; he presented Himself, true man, as the Son of God and Word of the Father, the Saviour who gives his life for us; and he spoke of the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son, the Spirit of Truth, the Paraclete Spirit — we spoke last Sunday about this word, ‘Paraclete’ — meaning Consoler and Advocate. And when Jesus appeared to the Apostles after the Resurrection, Jesus invited them to evangelize “all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Mt 28:19).
Today’s celebration, therefore, makes us contemplate this marvelous mystery of love and of light from which we come and toward which our earthly journey is guided.
In the message of the Gospel and in every form of Christian mission, one cannot overlook this unity among us to which Jesus calls, following the unity of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: one cannot overlook this unity. The beauty of the Gospel asks to be lived — unity — and witnessed in the harmony among us, who are so diverse! And this unity, I dare say, is essential to Christians: it is not an attitude, a manner of speaking, no; it is essential, because it is the unity that arises from love, from the mercy of God, from the justification of Jesus Christ and from the presence of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
Mary Most Holy, in her simplicity and humility, reflects the Beauty of the Triune God, because she fully welcomed Jesus into her life. May she sustain our faith; may she make us worshippers of God and servants of our brothers and sisters.
FAUSTI - "Go therefore and make disciples all peoples," Jesus says to the eleven. When His Mission is over, those who have met Him begin their journey.
RispondiEliminaIt is His own of Son, who testifies the Love of the Father to the brothers who do not yet know Him. What the Nazorean offered to Israel, the "Nazoreans" offer to all peoples.
Those who, in Him, have discovered their own name of son, realize it, like Him, by going towards their brothers, until that the Name of the Father in heaven is sanctified on the whole earth.
The passage is a synthetic vision of the entire book of Matthew. Like the finale of a symphony, it reprises and blends into a single harmony the themes developed in His Gospel.
Those who are sent are not "masters": One alone is the Master. They are and remain always "disciples", who learn! They are not masters, but listeners of the Wisdom of the Son,
veiled to the wise and intelligent, but revealed to infants. And they are eleven, not twelve, one is absent. The Community is structurally imperfect: sin and betrayal are always present, even in those who listen to the Word of God:
sin and betrayal are always present, even in those who listen to the Word. Matthew knows this: that is why he insists, even here, that it is necessary to put it into practice, without discounts.
The text, as always, is addressed to the readers, so that they too may have the experience of the first disciples. They must go to Galilee, to the mountain indicated to them by Jesus.
There they see Him and adore Him. Doubt is also part of the encounter, of which faith represents the overcoming. Those who go to the mountain know the Son and His own power is given to them.
It is that of doing what He says, of forgiving and overcoming evil. He has shown this, with great power and glory, in the sign of the Son of Man :the Cross!
The Apostles are not to teach, but to make all men disciples of the one Master: the Spirit who guides in the Truth of the Son.
Their mission is to communicate to others the same power that Jesus communicated to them: that of listening and doing the Word, in order to become a people that gives the fruit of the Kingdom.
Jesus came to immerse us in the Father of Life, of Whom we had rejected the Name, losing our own. It is in the Name of the Son, in His person, that we are in the Father!
It is in the Name of the Spirit, mutual Love between the Father and the Son, that we are inserted in the Trinity, participants in the Life of God.
The Son is forever Our Brother: His Name is God-with-us. His being with us makes our being with Him possible.
Time is a journey whose aim is to be with the One who has always and forever been with us.
This will be when, through the witness of the disciples, we all become children and brothers.
PRAYER OF Blessed
RispondiEliminaElizabeth of the Trinity
"O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me forget myself entirely so to establish myself in you, unmovable and peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing be able to trouble my peace or make me leave you, O my unchanging God, but may each minute bring me more deeply into your mystery! Grant my soul peace. Make it your heaven, your beloved dwelling and the place of your rest. May I never abandon you there, but may I be there, whole and entire, completely vigilant in my faith, entirely adoring, and wholly given over to your creative action.
O my beloved Christ, crucified for love,
I would like to be a bride of Your Heart;
I would like to cover You with glory and ask You to clothe me with Yourself,
to immerse my soul in all the movements of Your Soul,
to submerge me, to invade me, to replace you in me,
so that my life may be only an irradiation of your life.
Come into my Soul as Adorer, as Repairer and as Savior.
O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life listening to you;
I want to make myself all docility to learn everything from you.
Then, through all the nights, all the emptiness, all the helplessness,
I want to stare always at You and remain under Your great light.
O my beloved Star,
Enchant me, that I may never again leave from the splendor of your rays.
O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love,
descend upon me
that He may make my soul like an incarnation of the Word,
and that I may be for Him an addition of humanity in which He renews all His mystery.
And You, O Father,
bend down over your little creature,
cover her with your shadow, and look in her only as the Beloved
in whom you have placed all your pleasure.
O my THREE, my All,
my Bliss, infinite Solitude, Immensity in which I lose myself,
I give myself up to You as a prey.
Bury Yourself in me, that I may bury myself in You,
waiting to come and contemplate, in Your light,
the abyss of your greatness.