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When Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist in the river Jordan, the scriptures tell us that at very moment, a loud voice was heard from heaven saying: this my beloved Son , the beloved, in whom I am well pleased, and the Holy Spirit came down upon him in the form of a dove.
When a newborn child is held lovingly over the baptismal font by its mother, the moment the water is poured over its head and the words of the sacrament spoken, God the Father says: this is my beloved daughter/son in whom I am well pleased, and the Holy Spirit comes down on the child. The soul of the child now becomes the dwelling place of the Blessed Trinity. Every other sacrament the child will receive in its life will be administered in the name of the Holy Trinity. This is God’s greatest gift to the child, for he now makes it his own, and offers it all the means of holiness so that it can grow into the image of God.
Whenever we make the sign of the cross, let us make it with reverence in honour of the Holy Trinity. When we say the Glory be to the Father...may it be a sincere prayer offering to the Blessed Trinity our praise and adoration. At our death, the priest will say these words: Go forth, O Christian soul, in the name of God the Father who created you, in the name of Jesus, his Son, who redeemed you, and in the name of the Holy Spirit who sanctified you. And may your lot be with Christ this day in paradise. Amen
Feast of the Most Holy Trinity
To complete the liturgy of Eastertide, we celebrate today the feast of the most Holy Trinity –Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Artists down the centuries have tried to express this mystery, and so often God the Father is depicted as an elderly man with a white beard, the Holy Spirit as a dove, and, of course, it was easy to depict Jesus, as he was one of us.
However, in 1420, the great Russian artist, Andrei Rublev, painted an ikon of the
Blessed Trinity, and he had angels representing the three persons: the Father is
on the left-
This is an interesting and beautiful way of expressing an image of the Blessed Trinity for the ikon helps to conveys to our own minds something of the reality of this great mystery of three person in one God.