It will be part of the beatitude of the saints to know something of this
generation and procession of the Holy Ghost; they will be filled with
gladness inexpressible in the sight of God. They will see God as He is; in
their contemplation they will rise higher and higher, and by their studies
know more and more of God. As we are charmed with the beauties of
knowledge, the attraction of literature, so we will feel greater happiness
as we study the being of God in all its depths. “O the depths of the
riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are
His judgments, and how unsearchable His ways!”—Rom. xi. 33. The Church, in
the office and Mass of the feast of the most Holy Trinity repeats the same
words, as the expression of her awe and adoration in the presence of the
infinitely unsearchable ways of God in the Trinity. In adoring this life
of God, for life it is indeed, we are overwhelmed with awe, and are but
able in our astonishment to cry out with the Church, “O Blessed Trinity!”
Prayer.
Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, etc., etc.
Eighth Day.
The Holy Trinity does all the work exterior to itself by the joint power
of all; for the persons of God cannot be separated from the one God. There
are certain things which in our human mind we ascribe more to one person
than to the other, but all the divine persons must necessarily be
participants in the work of each. For example, the creation is ascribed to
the Father, because it seems to be a parental act to call something into
existence, and so we say God the Father created us. God the Son redeemed
us, and God the Holy Ghost sanctifies us. And still we read that in the
creation, “The Spirit of the Lord moved over the waters,” meaning that God
the Father was not only or singly engaged in the creation, but that the
other divine persons participated also. The same way, in the creation of
man, all the divine persons were engaged in this important work of God’s
power. Human beings were to know God, and to become the temples of the
Holy Ghost; and consequently the Holy Ghost had early in the creation to
show His co‐operation.
Prayer.
Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, etc., etc.
Ninth Day.
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