05/29/2026
A Message from Your Pastor
My Dear Parishioners,
This weekend the Catholic Church throughout the world celebrates the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. It is a profound mystery that defines who God is. When you think of it, the Trinity is a doctrine of our faith that we are introduced to at an early age. One of the first religious acts our parents taught us as little children was to make the sign of the cross, in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
One of the best explanations that I ever read about the Trinity was from the writings of our late and beloved Pope Benedict XVI who personally I feel was the best modern theologian of our time. In the remainder of this column I would like to share some excerpts from his teachings on the Holy Trinity. He writes:
“God is the creator and merciful Father. God is the only begotten Son, eternal wisdom incarnate who died and rose for us. God is the Holy Spirit who moves all things, cosmos and history to its final recapitulation in God. Jesus introduced us to the Trinity. He revealed, as the preface of today’s Mass proclaimed: ‘God is love not in the oneness of a single person, but in the Trinity of one substance’.”
“God does not live in splendid solitude but rather in an inexhaustible source of life that is clearly given and
communicated. To a certain extent, Benedict says, we can
perceive this by observing both the macro universe: our earth, planets, stars and galaxies and then the micro
universe: cells, atoms, and elementary particles. The name “Blessed Trinity” is in a certain sense imprinted
upon all things because all that exists down to the last particle is in relation. In this way, we catch a glimpse of God as relationship and ultimately creator of love.”
All things derive from love, aspire to live and move
impelled by love though naturally with varying degrees of awareness and freedom. The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: Love alone makes us happy because we live in relationship and we live to love and be loved. Borrowing an analogy from biology, we can say that imprinted upon his “genome”, the human
being bears a profound mark of the Trinity, of God as love.
“The Virgin Mary, Benedict writes, in her docile humility, became the handmaid of divine love. She accepted the Father’s will and conceived the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. In Mary, the almighty built a temple worthy of Him and made her the model and image of the Church, the house of communion with the Trinity for all human
beings. May Mary, the mirror of the Blessed Trinity, help us grow in faith and understanding of the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity.”
May God bless you, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
MONSIGNOR MARINE
