We cannot understand the mystery of the Blessed Trinity. We cannot
understand the persons of the Blessed Trinity, neither the Father, the
Son, nor the Holy Ghost; they are infinite. Still we can think of the
Blessed Trinity, and guided by what we know through revelation and
theology, try to go still further and discover more of the glory
surrounding it. One person of the Holy Trinity is as great as the other;
there is really no first nor second in dignity or power. There is,
however, a marvellous order in the unity of the Trinity, thus expressed in
the creed of St. Athanasius: “The Father is made of none, neither created
nor begotten. The Son is from the Father alone, not made nor created, but
begotten. The Holy Ghost is from the Father and the Son, not made nor
created nor begotten, but proceeding.” Thus the Holy Trinity exists from
all eternity, supremely happy in itself, not needing anything exteriorly
to assist in its existence.
Prayer.
Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, etc., etc.
Sixth Day.
God begets His Son by knowledge; the Son is the knowledge of the Father,
but the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son by way of love. The
Father and the Son, by an act of supreme natural love breathe forth the
co‐eternal Spirit. The Spirit proceeds from both, the pledge of their
mutual affection, and the expression of infinite beatitude. The Father
loves the Son with such an infinite love as to breathe forth a divine
Spirit through His Son. As St. Bernard says, the Spirit is the sacred kiss
of the Father and the Son in their imperturbable peace, their firm
coherence, their undivided love, their indivisible unity. The Son proceeds
from the Father as the ray from the sun; the Holy Ghost from the Father
and the Son as the heat from the ray and the sun. The Son as the word, the
Holy Ghost as the breath; the Son as the river from the fountain; the Holy
Ghost as the lightning from the cloud. These expressions hardly convey
what is meant, because the ray is smaller than the sun; while in God the
ray is equal, the heat is consubstantial with its source. The word says
all, the breath is real, the fire burns always and is never extinguished.
Prayer.
Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, etc., etc.
Seventh Day.
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