VATICAN - The Pope’s Sunday reflection at the Angelus: “God is not solitude, but perfect communion. This is why the human person, the image of God, is realised through love, sincere gift of self ”

Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The words which summarise all revelation are these: ‘God is love’ (1 Jn 4,8.16); and love is always a mystery, a reality which goes beyond reason although without contradicting it, indeed exalting its potential. Jesus revealed to us the mystery of God: He, the Son, introduced us to the Father who is in heaven, and gave us the Holy Spirit, the Love of the Father and of the Son.” On Trinity Sunday before leading the midday recitation of the Angelus prayer with thousands gathered in St Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI reflected on this profound mystery. “Christian theology summarises the truth of God in this way: one substance, three persons. God is not solitude, but perfect communion. This is why the human person, the image of God, is realised through love, sincere gift of self.”
The Pope had special greetings for the participants at the Italian national Eucharistic Congress in Bari. “At the heart of this year dedicated to the Eucharist the Christian people gathers around Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, source and summit of its life and mission. In particular, each parish is called to rediscover the beauty of Sunday, the Lord’s Day when in the Eucharist the disciples of Christ renew communion with the One who gives meaning to the joys and fatigue of every day”. Benedict XVI recalled that next Sunday he will preside the closing Mass of the Congress in Bari . Before the Angelus he entrusted these days of intense prayer and adoration and “all children, adolescents abnd young people making their first Holy Communion or Confirmation” to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 23/5/2005; righe 20, parole 304)