VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI at the Angelus on the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: Among the different analogies of the ineffable mystery of God, Three in One, which believers are able to perceive, I would mention that of the family called to be a community of love and life

Monday, 12 June 2006

Vatican City (Fides Service) - “The whole of the universe, for those who have faith, speaks of God, Three in One. From inter-star space to microscopic particles, everything which exists points to a Being who communicates himself in the variety of the elements, as in an immense symphony”. With these words Pope Benedict XVI introduced the midday Marian prayer of the Angelus, on Sunday 11 June, solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
“Thanks to the Holy Spirit who helps us understand the words of Jesus and guides us to the whole truth - the Pope said -, believers can know God, so to say, intimately, discovering that He is not infinite solitude, but rather communion of light and love, life given and received in eternal dialogue between the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit - Lover, Beloved and Love, to re-echo Saint Augustine. In this world no one can see God, but He has made himself known... a person who encounters Christ and enters into a relationship of friendship with Him, is visited in his soul by the Communion of the Trinity.”
The Holy Father then said “The whole of the universe, for those who have faith, speaks of God, Three in One … all beings are ordered according to a harmonious dynamism which we cam analogously call love "love". However only in the human person, free and reasonable, this dynamism becomes spiritual, it becomes responsible love, as a response to God and to neighbour in a sincere gift of self. In this love the human being finds its truth and its happiness. Among the different analogies of the ineffable mystery of God, Three in One which believers are able to perceive, I would mention that of the family. It is called to be a community of love and life, in which diversities must converge to form a "parabola of communion". A masterpiece of the Most Holy Trinity, among all creatures, is the Blessed Virgin Mary: in her heart filled with humility and faith God prepared for himself a worthy dwelling place to bring the mystery of salvation to completion”. Then Pope Benedict XVI asked those present to pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary to help all Christians “grow in love and make life a song of praise to the Father, through the Son in the Holy Spirit”.
After the Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI recalled that on Thursday 15 June he will preside the traditional Corpus Christi Mass at St John’s Cathedral, and procession to St Mary Major’s where he will impart the Eucharistic Blessing. The Pope invited Romans and visitors to take part in this annual celebration with which Catholics all over the world express faith and love in Jesus Christ present in the Eucharist.(S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 12/6/2006 - righe 30, parole 455)


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