(Vatican News) Pope Francis, during the Angelus from St Peter’s Square recalled the feast of the Most Holy Trinity this Sunday, describing it as an immense mystery which “exceeds the capacity of our mind, but which speaks to our heart, because we find it enclosed in that expression of Saint John which sums up all of Revelation: “God is love.”
He went on to say that, insofar as God is love, and the one and only one, there is also communion between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
BOND OF UNITY
Addressing the faithful the Pope explained that “it is the Father who gives himself by generating the Son, who in turn gives himself to the Father, and their mutual love is the Holy Spirit, the bond of their unity.”
“This mystery of the Trinity has been revealed to us by Jesus himself,“ emphasized Pope Francis. “He showed us the face of God as the merciful Father; He presented Himself, true man, as the Son of God and the Word of the Father.”
The Pope continued by saying that Jesus “spoke of the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son, the Spirit of Truth, the Paraclete Spirit, that is, our Consoler and Advocate.”
MYSTERY OF LOVE AND LIGHT
The feast of the Holy Trinity, said Pope Francis, “makes us contemplate this wonderful mystery of love and light from which we come and toward which our earthly journey is guided.”
“In the proclamation of the Gospel and in every form of the Christian mission,” Pope Francis underlined, we cannot disregard this unity invoked by Jesus; the beauty of the Gospel demands to be lived and witnessed in harmony among us, who are so different.”
He continued by saying that this unity, “is essential to the Christian: it is not an attitude, a way of saying: no. It is essential, because unity is the only way of life. It is essential, because unity is born of love, of God’s mercy, of the justification of Jesus Christ and of the presence of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.”
POPE FRANCIS TO MEET WITH CHRISTIAN LEADERS FROM LEBANON
In words following Sunday’s Angelus, Pope Francis said he will receive the leaders of Lebanon’s Christian communities in the Vatican, on 1 July to discuss the deep crisis that the country has been going through for several months. He also recalled three lay women beatified on Saturday in Spain.
In greetings following the recitation of the Marian Prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis remembered Lebanon and its people. The Pope told the faithful in St Peter’s Square that on 1 July he will be meeting, in the Vatican, with the principal leaders of the Christian Communities present in Lebanon, “for a day of reflection on the worrying situation in the country and to pray together for the gift of peace and stability.”
“I entrust this intention to the intercession of the Mother of God, so venerated at the Shrine of Harissa, and from this moment I ask you to accompany the preparation of this event with prayer in solidarity, invoking for that beloved country a more serene future,” he said.
Earlier this week, the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) appealed to the European Union to support the people of Lebanon who are facing a political and economic crisis.
COMECE’s appeal to the EU came after the Lebanese Church voiced its fears in a letter sent to EU Bishops.
Tej Francis
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