Trinity Sunday June 15
Preface of the Holy Trinity
With your only Son and the Holy Spirit, you are one God, you are one Lord, not in a single person but one substance in three persons. What we believe of your glory, because you have revealed it, we believe equally of your Son and of the Holy Spirit; and when we proclaim our faith in the eternal and true God, we simultaneously adore each of the persons, in their unique nature and equal majesty.
Our relationship with the Heart of Christ is then transformed under the impulse of the Spirit who directs us towards the Father, the paternal source of life and the supreme origin of grace. Christ does not desire that we stop at Him. The love of Christ is a “revelation of the Father’s mercy.” His desire is that, driven by the Spirit who springs from his heart, “with Him and in Him” we may go to the Father. Glory is addressed to the Father “through” Christ, “with” Christ and “in” Christ. Saint John Paul II taught that “the Heart of the Savior invites us to return to the love of the Father which is the source of all authentic love.” This is precisely what the Holy Spirit seeks to cultivate in our hearts by coming to us from the Heart of Christ. This is why the liturgy, under the life-giving action of the Spirit, always turns to the Father from the risen Heart of Christ.” Dilexit Nos 77
Action: I pray an Our Father very slowly, as if I were saying it with Jesus himself at my side.
Monday, June 16
Towards the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament
Devotion to the Heart of Christ reappears in the spiritual journey
of many saints, each very different from the other, and this devotion takes on new aspects in each of them. Saint Vincent de Paul, for example, said that what God wants is the heart: “God asks primarily for the heart, the heart, and it is the most important thing. Why is it that someone who has nothing will deserve more than someone who has great possessions that they renounce? Because someone who has nothing goes there with more affection; and this is what God particularly wants…” This implies agreeing to unite one’s heart to that of Christ: “A woman who does all she can to put her heart in a state of being united to that of Our Lord, […] what blessing must she not hope for from God.” Dilexit Nos. 148
Action
I take real time for a heart-to-heart with the Lord, taking care to be silent and let Him speak to me.
Tuesday, June 17
Our cooperation can allow God’s power and love to spread in our lives and in the world, while rejection or indifference can prevent it. (…) Our refusal or indifference limit the effects of his power and the fruitfulness of his love in us. If he does not find trust and openness in me, his love is deprived—because he himself wants it that way—of its extension in my life, which is unique and cannot be repeated, and in the world where he calls me to make it present. This does not come from any weakness on his part but from his infinite freedom, his paradoxical power, and the perfection of his love for each of us. Dilexit Nos. 192-193
Action
I ask the Lord’s forgiveness for all the times my indifference or rejection have prevented His power and love from flowing in me, or through me. If I can, I will confess. If I am unable to do so today, I will confess before the end of the month.
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