A reflection on Catechism of the Catholic Church 2789
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
©️2025 Gloria M. Chang
When we pray to “our” Father, we personally address the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. By doing so we do not divide the Godhead, since the Father is its “source and origin,” but rather confess that the Son is eternally begotten by him and the Holy Spirit proceeds from him. We are not confusing the persons, for we confess that our communion is with the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ, in their one Holy Spirit. The Holy Trinity is consubstantial and indivisible. When we pray to the Father, we adore and glorify him together with the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Catechism of the Catholic Church 2789
In the Image of the Trinity
When Jesus taught his disciples the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9–13 and Luke 11:2–4), he forever transformed humankind’s relationship to God. By addressing God as “our” Father, we unite with Christ as his brothers and sisters, sharing in his divine sonship through the grace of the Holy Spirit.
The Body of Christ, composed of a multitude of human persons, mirrors the unity and diversity of the Trinity of Divine Persons. Through Christ, who is consubstantial with the Father in his divinity and consubstantial with us in his humanity, the Church is deified by grace and transformed into the likeness of the Trinity.
The Father, whose name is “hallowed,” is the “source and origin” of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Thus, whenever we pray to the Father, we also pray to the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Lord’s Prayer draws us into the eternal and infinite communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Divine communion is the foundation of human communion, concord, and shalom (wholeness and peace).
Our Father begets the Son,
Sends the Spirit and makes us one.
Trinitarian love is a circular flow,
No beginning with no end.
Eternal action unlike earthly deeds,
Divine realm, beyond what we know.
Indivisibly One with diversity.
Holy God in persons three.
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
Fill me with your Triune love.
Transform my selfish ways.
Make me mirror your limitless love.
Divine Wisdom plays like a child (Prov 8: 22, 27, 30-31), reflects Pope Leo XIV in his Trinity Sunday homily on the Jubilee of Sport:
While we are celebrating today the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, we are also marking the Jubilee of Sport. This combination of Trinity and Sport is somewhat unusual, yet the juxtaposition is not inappropriate. Every good and worthwhile human activity is in some way a reflection of God’s infinite beauty, and sport is certainly one of these. For God is not immobile and closed in on himself, but activity, communion, a dynamic relationship between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, which opens up to humanity and to the world. Theologians speak of perichoresis: the life of God is a kind of “dance”: a dance of mutual love.
The Trinity of God “explained” (respectfully) with sport by Pope Leo XIV | ZENIT – English
The play of Divine Love is a greater spectacle than any sport we engage here on earth! Imagine the hoopla of the cheers coming from humans who are graced with the flow of Triune love. Being a mirror of God’s love is a banner more beautiful than any fan waving in earthly stadiums.
Amen! Thank you for that beautiful reflection, Ellen.