GOSPEL MEDITATION – ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE

June 12, 2022~The Most Holy Trinity

In creative celebration of the Most Holy Trinity, pray a rosary with creation. Find a quiet place outside or sit near a window. Contemplate the amazing Divine Gift that is before you. Admire it. Study it. Become one with it. Ask for the guidance of Brother St. Francis as you pray: “You, Holy Father, are King of heaven and earth. You are three in one, God above all gods. You are good, all good, and supreme good, Lord God, living and true. You are love. You are beauty. You are gentleness. You are joy. You are hope and happiness.” Admire the wonder and majesty of God in all that is around you. Ask for wisdom and understanding.

Begin each decade with the Our Father and conclude with the Glory Be.

Decade one: Contemplate God the Father. As you pray each bead with a Hail Mary, get lost in the grandeur of all that you see. Imagine the thousands and thousands of years of history that is before you. Envision a time when nothing existed. What is nothing? Lift your eyes, heart, and soul to the power and magnificence of the universe, its expanse and its endlessness. You are one with it all. God’s creative power.

Decade two: Contemplate God the Son. Behold the squirrels, birds, and critters all conducting life’s business. They have heartbeats just like yours. Praying each bead, become one with the incarnate divine life that flows through you and flows with the smallest of creatures. It is holy innocence and blessed life. Tenderness. Compassion, Mercy. Reverence. All want to be held, have a home, and be loved. God in all things. Emmanuel.

Decade three: Contemplate God the Holy Spirit. The changing of times and seasons happens often without notice. It is all within God’s care and guided. We all belong. Behold the living, dying, and rising to new life. You are one with all time from beginning into eternity.

Decade Four: Contemplate God as One.

Decade Five: Contemplate God as three. All different while remaining one. The divine dance is being danced before you. Rest in what you see. Become what you see.  We are all connected: God of the Holy Trinity, creation, our brothers and sisters, the animals, and the plants.

The rosary you have prayed celebrates the circle of connectedness and the intimate relationship we share with all things: a glimpse of the Trinity.

©LPi

MEDITACIÓN EVANGÉLICO – ALENTAR ENTENDIMIENTO MÁS PROFUNDO DE LA ESCRITURA (Gospel Meditation)

12 de junio de 2022~La Santísima Trinidad

“En el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo”. Al santiguarnos, pues, no lo hagamos tan aprisa y balbuceando la oración que nos encomienda a la Trinidad y nos ayuda a comprometernos como bautizados al servicio del Reino de Dios.  La Trinidad es un misterio de amor y de entrega, y cada año, la Liturgia nos propone reflexionar en las tres personas que la componen: Dios Padre, Dios Hijo y Dios Espíritu Santo. Es el misterio más grande del cristianismo. Donde Dios se revela como comunidad de vida y de amor que existe en la Trinidad. Un solo Dios verdadero, en tres personas distintas.

“El Señor ordenó bautizar en el nombre del Padre y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo. El catecúmeno es bautizado profesando por ello la fe en el Creador, en el Unigénito y el Don. Solo uno es el Creador de todo, ya que uno solo es Dios Padre, de quien procede todo; uno es también el Unigénito, nuestro Señor Jesucristo, por medio del cual todas las cosas fueron creadas; y uno solo es el Espíritu, que a todos nos ha sido dado” (San Hilario de Poitiers (315-367) Sobre la Trinidad). “La Santísima Trinidad es la luz del tiempo pascual y de Pentecostés, renueva cada año en nosotros la alegría y el estupor de la fe: reconocemos que Dios no es una cosa vaga, nuestro Dios no es un Dios ‘spray’, es concreto, no es abstracto, sino que tiene un nombre: ‘Dios es amor’. No es un amor sentimental, emotivo, sino el amor del Padre que está en el origen de cada vida, el amor del Hijo que muere en la cruz y resucita, el amor del Espíritu que renueva al hombre y al mundo” (Papa Francisco). ¡Amén! ©LPi