Meditation | Word of God | Novena Prayers
The mystery of the Trinity is the one
true God in three Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The mystery of the
Trinity was expressed in the Person, words, and actions of Jesus Christ. After speaking through the Prophets, God sent His
son. He came among people in the Person of
His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus told us the
“Good News” of salvation. This
message is found in the New Testament. By His
words and actions, and especially in His holy Person, Jesus made known the deepest truths
about God. The Blessed Trinity is the deepest
of all mysteries.
Jesus has revealed
to us the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven. The
greatest of His teachings is the secret of God Himself.
He has told us of the life of God. He
taught us that in the one God there are three Persons, each equal to each other. He told us the names of these three Divine
Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ
revealed Himself as the eternal and Divine Son of God. He said that He is the Son, the only-begotten Son
of the Father, equal to the Father.
Jesus more fully
revealed the Father. He constantly
spoke of His Father, calling Him always by that name.
He taught us to love our heavenly Father because He loves us and wants to
help us in all the needs of our body and soul. He
wants to bring His children to His heavenly home.
Jesus revealed the
third Divine Person, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father and He, as the Risen Lord,
sent to His Church. Jesus promised to send a third Divine Person, the equal of Himself and
the Father.
Jesus, the Divine
Teacher, taught His disciples about the true God and called them to become sons of God
through the gift of the Spirit.
We honour the
Blessed Trinity by trying to remember the presence of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in our souls and to understand, as
much as we can through faith, that through Baptism we are called to a close union of love
with the three Divine Persons.
“How deep are
the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How
inscrutable His judgments, how unsearchable His ways!
For ‘who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been His counselor? Who
has given Him anything so as to deserve return?’
For from Him and through Him and for Him all things are. To Him be glory forever. Amen.” (Rom
11:33-36)
“There are
three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these
three are one.” (1Jn 5:7)
“There are different gifts but the
same SPIRIT; there are different ministries but the same LORD; there are different works
but the same GOD who accomplishes all of them in everyone.” (1 Cor 12:4-5)
NOVENA
PRAYERS
Novena Prayer
God Eternal Father, bless me
through the love with which You have begotten Your only Son from all eternity and shared
with Him the fullness of Your own Divinity.
Bless me through the love which has
made us children of adoption and partakers of the treasures of Your Divinity.
Bless me through the love with which
You have sent us Your Son and the Holy Spirit in order to work the miracles of Your power
and mercy in us. Grant that I may always
revere and honor You as my great God and love You with my whole heart as the best of
fathers.
Eternal Father, grant my petition: (Mention your favour)
God Eternal Son, image of the
splendor of the heavenly Father, bless me through the love with which You surround us,
Your poor creatures. You have become our
Brother according to the flesh to make us Your brothers according to Your Divinity, and an
image of Your splendor.
Bless me through the marvellous
goodness of Your Sacred Heart which caused You to choose death in order to bring us life.
Bless me through the love with which
You always plead for us in the Blessed Sacrament and at the throne of God and give
Yourself to us in Holy Communion. Grant that
all this love and all Your bitter pain may not be lost on me.
Eternal Son, grant my petition: (Mention your favour)
God Holy Spirit, mutual Love of
the Father and the Son, bless me through the love with which You proceed from the Father
and the Son and unite them in eternal unity.
Bless me through the love with which
You give Yourself to us as our greatest Gift, dispensing Your divine graces to us and
transforming sinners into children of God.
Bless me through the love with which
You dwell in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, through Whose merit the earth is filled with grace
and made a dwelling place for the God of heaven. Grant
that I, Your faithful servant, may always allow myself to be led by You so as to advance
in virtue and reach eternal happiness.
God Holy Spirit, grant my petition: (Mention your favour).
Offering
Most Holy Trinity, Godhead indivisible,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, our first beginning and our last end, You have made us after
Your own image and likeness. Grant that all
the thoughts of my mind, all the words of my mouth, all the affections of my heart and all
my actions may be always conformed to Your most holy Will.
After having seen You here below in Your manifestations and in a dark manner
by faith, may I come at last to see You face to face in the perfect possession of You
forever in heaven. Amen.
Prayer
Almighty and Everlasting God, You have
given us, Your servants, grace by the profession of the true faith to acknowledge the
glory of the Eternal Trinity, and in the power of Your Divine Majesty to worship the
Unity. We beg You to grant that, by our
fidelity in this same faith, we may always be defined from all dangers. Through Christ our
Lord. Amen.
Praise and Worship
I praise You, Father all-powerful. I praise You, Divine Son, our Lord and Saviour. I praise You, Spirit of love.
One God, three
Persons, be near me in the temple of my soul. You
reveal Yourself in the depths of my being. Draw
me to share in Your life and love.
Your power is
beyond all words to describe, Your glory is measureless, Your mercy is without limits,
Your love for mankind is beyond all telling. Look
down upon me and in Your kindness grant to me the riches of Your compassion and mercy, a
share in Your Divine life.
May I come to live more fully the
life I profess and come to the glory of Your Kingdom.
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Reading |
A letter by St Athanasius |
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Light, radiance and grace are in the Trinity and
from the Trinity |
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It will not be out of place to
consider the ancient tradition, teaching and faith of the Catholic
Church, which was revealed by the Lord, proclaimed by the apostles and
guarded by the fathers. For upon this faith the Church is built, and if
anyone were to lapse from it, he would no longer be a Christian either
in fact or in name.
We acknowledge the Trinity, holy and perfect, to consist of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit. In this Trinity there is no intrusion of
any alien element or of anything from outside, nor is the Trinity a
blend of creative and created being. It is a wholly creative and
energising reality, self-consistent and undivided in its active power,
for the Father makes all things through the Word and in the Holy Spirit,
and in this way the unity of the holy Trinity is preserved. Accordingly,
in the Church, one God is preached, one God who is above all things
and through all things and in all things. God is above all things
as Father, for he is principle and source; he is through all things
through the Word; and he is in all things in the Holy Spirit.
Writing to the Corinthians about spiritual matters, Paul traces all
reality back to one God, the Father, saying: Now there are varieties
of gifts, but the same Spirit; and varieties of service, but the same
Lord; and there are varieties of service but the same Lord; and there
are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all
in everyone.
Even the gifts that the Spirit dispenses to individuals are given by the
Father through the Word. For all that belongs to the Father belongs also
to the Son, and so the graces given by the Son in the Spirit are true
gifts of the Father. Similarly, when the Spirit dwells in us, the Word
who bestows the Spirit is in us too, and the Father is present in the
Word. This is the meaning of the text: My Father and I will come to
him and make our home with him. For where the light is, there also
is the radiance; and where the radiance is, there too are its power and
its resplendent grace.
This is also Paul’s teaching in his second letter to the Corinthians:
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. For grace and the
gift of the Trinity are given by the Father through the Son in the Holy
Spirit. Just as grace is given from the Father through the Son, so there
could be no communication of the gift to us except in the Holy Spirit.
But when we share in the Spirit, we posses the love of the Father, the
grace of the Son and the fellowship of the Spirit himself.
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