The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever. The canticle from Daniel moves through the attributes of God's dwelling - the temple, the throne, the cherubim - praising him from every angle. The Trinity is the interior life of the one who is praised from all these angles: the Father from whom the love flows, the Son through whom the grace comes, the Spirit in whom the fellowship is given.

When they saw him they worshiped, but some doubted. The eleven on the mountain are the whole picture of the Church: worshipers and doubters present in the same company, given the same commission, promised the same presence. I am with you always. The doubters receive the same promise as the worshipers. The commission is given to both.

In the evening of life, Trinity Sunday is the feast that contains all the other feasts - the mercy proclaimed to Moses before the commandments were written a second time, the grace of the Son who died and rose, the fellowship of the Spirit poured out at Pentecost. All of it, to all of you, from the name into which you were baptized.