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In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, so be it. Well, dear brothers,
here is the paschal time now completed. We begin this long time. It is a long Sunday,
almost half of the year, with the Sunday after Pentecost.

And today, Sunday of the Holy Trinity, the greatest of all mysteries. So do not
think that this morning, I will make this mystery no longer a mystery. It will always
remain a mystery. It is a mystery that we must adore, that we Catholics alone adore.

We believe in God the Father, in God the Son, in God the Holy Ghost. It is a dogma
of faith, a dogma, a fundamental truth on which our faith is built. And as the great
Saint Athanasius says, Bishop of Alexandria, he who doubts, or denies, who denies
rather, doubt is not a denial, who denies one of the truths of faith concerning
the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, is no longer Catholic. That is the conclusion
of his long creed that the Church makes us recite on this day at the Prime Office,
the great Saint Athanasius.

"It is our Lord Jesus Christ who revealed this great mystery. Indeed, God did not do
it in the Old Testament, except by hints. For example, when it is said that Abraham
saw three figures and worshipped one. It is a manifestation in filigree, with much
shadow, but still, of the Holy Trinity.

Indeed, the Hebrew people were so hard of heart, as Holy Scripture rightly says, a
stiff-necked people. And let us not forget that the Hebrews lived 400 years among the
Egyptians, where they worshipped anything and anyone, the stars, animals. Moreover,
when the Hebrews thought that Moses was dead on Mount Sinai, what did they do? A
golden calf!

So their faith was quite fragile. So if God had revealed Himself as three, there would
have been polytheism. Three gods, no, one god, in three equal and distinct persons. The
Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Ghost, the Father is not the Holy Ghost.

And yet, the three persons are equal and eternal. What a mystery! We are already
entering the shadow, the divine shadow and the clarity, this clarity, we will have
in heaven, of course. In any case, you see, God did not want to reveal this great
truth in the Holy Ghost, because there would have been a great confusion of minds.

They would have worshipped three gods, thus, ultimately, these Hebrews would have
returned to polytheism. So it is Jesus Christ who, little by little, with much tact
revealed this great mystery without unveiling the mystery itself, but he describes
it. For example, in Saint Matthew, our Lord Jesus Christ uses many parables and it
is at the end of the Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew that we heard on this
Sunday of the Holy Trinity that our Lord Jesus Christ perfectly, clearly reveals
this mystery. When he says to the apostles, it is the day of the ascension, go teach
all nations.

First, see, teach. Instruction, as Saint Paul says, faith comes from hearing. Fides
ex auditu. So go teach all nations and baptize them in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

It is very clear. "And also, when we are absolved of our sins, it is not only in
the name of Jesus Christ or of the Holy Ghost or of the Father alone, but it is in
the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. This Holy Trinity is
present everywhere. And Jesus Christ wished to reveal to us this great mystery.

Before, there were, before this great revelation at the end of the Gospel according
to Saint Matthew, chapter 28, there are hints. The Father who is in heaven, our Lord
Jesus Christ teaches us to pray our Father who is in heaven. He himself, he says, is
the only Son of the Heavenly Father. And he recalls the holiness of the Holy Ghost and
emphasizes the gravity of the blasphemy against him, the sins against the Holy Ghost.

So let us detail a little these three persons. God the Father, Jesus Christ speaks of
him very often in the Gospel. This Father who takes care of each of us in the smallest
detail. It is one of the parables that Jesus Christ teaches us in Saint Matthew.

Our Heavenly Father, it is everything you need. A family Father, this is precisely
what his children need, but they must pray to the Father so that he may give his
children what they need. This very intimate relationship between the Father and the
Son, the children, ourselves, and the children and the Father. The Heavenly Father,
he is your Heavenly Father.

It is everything you need. When Jesus Christ is in the Temple at twelve years old and
that Our Lady and Saint Joseph search in vain for our Lord Jesus Christ and after
three days, they find him. Jesus Christ speaks of his Father. Are you not aware,
he tells them, that I must be about my Father's business?

My Father, it is not Saint Joseph, the earthly Father, but the Father from Heaven. His
own Father. And whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother
and my sister and my mother. "And Jesus responds in a somewhat surprising way "But
who is my mother?

Who are my brothers? "He who does the will of my Father. Always this relationship,
this very intimate bond with his Father. In the parable which is almost just before
the Passion of Jesus Christ, the parable of the blessed and the cursed also.

"Come," he says, "the blessed of my Father. "And of course, this extraordinary
word, this magnificent prayer that Jesus wanted to teach us at the request of the
disciples and the apostles. "When you pray, enter your room, close the door, which
means "be gathered" and there, pray like this, our Father who is in heaven and all
the requests which are admirable. And your Father who sees what is done in secret
will give you what you need.

So, the Father is clearly revealed by our Lord Jesus Christ. God the Son. It is
enough to read the Gospels. There, all the pages speak to us, of course, of our Lord
Jesus Christ.

Even the demons will proclaim this truth, one could say, reluctantly. "Jesus, Son
of God. "No, no, sorry. It is the demon who says, "I adjure you by God.

"The demons themselves recognize the power of God. Even if it is said that the
demon is a liar, at times, he is manifestly obliged to declare that Jesus is God,
Son of God. Son of God. So this relationship, the demon knows it and admits it.

Sometimes we see this in exorcisms. For example, Father Matthieu, famous Capuchin
who performed great exorcisms in the diocese of Valence 30-40 years ago, but is now
deceased. Well, the demons, he says, were sometimes obliged to recognize the power,
the truth of God, the existence of God. And then, Saint Peter, Saint Peter will say
when Jesus Christ says to him, "But for you," he says, "who are you?

Who am I? "And Peter speaks." "Blessed are you," responds Jesus. "Blessed are you,
Simon, son of John.

"It is a revelation from God. And if Peter affirms that Jesus is the Son of God,
it is not by his own doing, it is because he is inspired. It is God who has revealed
this great truth, the Son of God. The parables are very explicit.

For example, the one of the vinedressers, to such an extent that the Jews will see
well this identity between Jesus and God. They will want, at the end of the parable,
to throw stones to stone Jesus because to them, he has blasphemed. The landowner is
God. The vinedressers, the Jєωιѕн people, the vineyard, the kingdom, the servants,
the prophets, and then comes the Son, the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

"Well, Jesus Christ says, yes, even the Son, they will kill him. So the Jews accurately
recognize that the prophets have been stoned. For example, Isaiah was sawed in two,
Jeremiah died in a gutter, like a sick man, like a worthless person. All the prophets
suffered the indignities of the people because they did not want to recognize the
coming Messiah and the Messiah himself will be crucified on Good Friday.

So they want to throw stones at our Lord Jesus Christ because he affirms that he
is God and the Son of God. At the Passion, it is very clear. "He has blasphemed,
you all together. He deserves death.

Jesus is God, he affirms it. You see, our Lord Jesus Christ is not at all ecuмenical,
of a liberal spirit. "No. "Ego sum, I am.

Between the Father and the Son, there is a great union. It is the word of Jesus
Christ, even in Saint John. All has been given to me by the Father and no one knows
who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son. And he whom
the Son wishes to reveal him.

So there is faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ reveals this truth that there is not an
identity but a very strong union between the Father and the Son and the Son and the
Father. "This means that he is God. All power.

He did not say any power or partial power. All power has been given to me in heaven
and on earth. I am the king. The King of kings.

Before looking at the Holy Ghost, an extraordinary word from God, our Lord Jesus
Christ, God the Father in the Old Testament and God the Son in the New Testament. It
is the same word. "And Moses had to flee Egypt. Then Moses says, "But do you have
an identity card?

"To have, one can lose what one has. To be, no. One is or one is not. God is.

"And it is like that. And it is by this divine name that Moses will intervene before
Pharaoh. It will not be without pain. There will be these plagues, etc.

But it is in this divine name that Moses will have the strength to preach, to be
courageous. And yet, Moses was a rather timid and stuttering man. Therefore, he
will speak through his brother, Aaron, who spoke well and who is a great priest. But
Moses was a stutterer.

You see, sometimes, the greats of God, they have natural defects, fragilities. He
was a stutterer. Not easy for a leader. So, since he was a stutterer, he hesitated
to speak, of course.

"The power of God is extraordinary. He acts. And it is not Moses who acted. Of course,
he acted, but in the name of God.

In any case, he had a famous handicap with regard to his tongue. When someone
stutters, we say "Will it come out or not? Well. And then, our Lord Jesus Christ,
it is in Saint John, chapter 8, verses 28 to 30.

Jesus Christ speaks of his passion and says this. "When you have exalted the Son of
Man, so exalted, it is to elevate, not on a podium, it is raised, on the cross. It
is then, he says, that you will understand that I am, that I do nothing of my own,
but that I speak as my Father has taught me. And the one who sent me is with me.

"After these words, many, many believed in him. The important word is this. "But
there, he does not say it. "Ego sum.

This is the word of God. This is the divine identity. "There is a very clear
relationship with the word of God the Father in the burning bush. "Some, later on,
of course, will withdraw from our Lord Jesus Christ, but our Lord Jesus Christ is God.

I am. Ego sum. Of all eternity, by my divine nature. In time, of course, Jesus Christ
began to be.

He is a man. But in his divinity, he has no beginning and no end. He is God
eternal. Still another great mystery.

Finally, God, the Holy Ghost. When Jesus, pardon, when John the Baptist is baptizing
in the water, Christ, above him, there is this dove representing the Holy Ghost. And
the dove also with these seven gifts of the Holy Ghost that we have been able to
meditate on during this Pentecost and its octave. Jesus Christ is led by the Spirit
into the desert.

The 40 days in the desert. It is the Holy Ghost, the good Spirit, the Holy Ghost who
drives him to the desert. When Jesus Christ sends his 72 disciples, they rejoice on
their return in the Holy Ghost. Because conversions happen through the Holy Ghost.

And Jesus rejoices in his soul, his human soul, in his humanity. He rejoices with
joy. The Holy Ghost, afterwards, permeates the work of Pentecost and of the Acts of
the Apostles. It is good to study this instruction by the Holy Ghost in the Acts of
the Apostles.

The Holy Ghost speaks through the mouths of the apostles. What a difference between
the apostles before Pentecost, the apostles at Pentecost and after Pentecost. The
same men are completely different. They are moved by the Holy Ghost.

They have the strength of the Holy Ghost, the courage to the martyrdom. They give
their lives for our Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Ghost. This Holy Ghost who
is a sanctifier, a comforter, master of the spiritual life. "It signifies that Jesus
Christ is already a paraclete, already a comforter, already an advocate, but he will
send another advocate, another comforter, it is the Holy Ghost who will teach you
all things, not new things, but who will repeat these things in a different way so
that you may understand them.

You see the pedagogy of our Lord Jesus Christ, the divine pedagogy. In the Gospel,
there are three manifestations of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Trinity, at the baptism
of Jesus Christ. "The Son is present, the dove that hovers above the waters. The
transfiguration, Jesus Christ is present, surrounded by Moses and Elijah, plus the
apostles who are thrown back when Jesus Christ is transfigured.

"What does this mean? Except, open the Gospel, listen to the word of Jesus Christ. "I
am the Word of God," he says, the word, the Word of God. In the beginning, at the
beginning, he was the Word of God, the Word of God.

And then, of course, in this transfiguration, there is this cloud that envelops the
Father and the Son. There will also be when on Palm Sunday, Jesus Christ is in the
ovation of all and a voice will ring out, a great crash, a great thunder. And the
word of God is heard once again. Saint Paul will summarize all this in a letter.

"In the liturgy, of course, the Holy Trinity is always present. In the rosary too,
we start with the Our Father, the I believe in God, the Our Father, "Hail Mary,
Mary who is overwhelmed by the Holy Ghost at her conception, at the Immaculate. "A
praise to the Holy Trinity, an adoration of the Holy Trinity. You certainly know,
I am a bit lengthy this morning, but the mystery is so important that we cannot
skimp on the instruction about the Holy Trinity.

You certainly know, I was saying, this beautiful prayer of Sister Elizabeth of
the Trinity who was a Carmelite in Dijon who died in 1906. I will simply read in
conclusion this beautiful prayer. Oh my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me to forget
myself completely to establish myself in You, immobile and peaceful as if my soul were
already in eternity. May nothing be able to find my peace nor make me depart from You,
oh my immutable, but may each minute carry me further into the depths of Your mystery.

Pacify my soul, make it Your heaven, Your beloved dwelling and place of Your rest. May
I never leave You alone there, but may I be there wholly, fully awake in my faith,
all adorant, all surrendered to Your creative action. Oh my beloved Christ, crucified
out of love, I would like to be a spouse for Your heart. I would like to cover You
with glory, I would like to love You until dying.

But I feel my powerlessness and I ask You to wake me to Yourself, to identify my soul
with all the movements of Your soul, to submerge me, to overwhelm me, to substitute
Yourself for me so that my life may be nothing but a radiance of Your life. Come
into me as adorer, as repairer and as savior. To the eternal Word, word of my God,
I will spend my life listening to You. I want to make myself fully teachable so as
to learn everything from You.

Then, through all the nights, all the voids, all the powerlessness, I want to always
gaze at You and remain under Your great light. O my beloved star, fascinate me so
that I can no longer leave Your radiance. O consuming fire, spirit of love, come
upon me so that there may be in my soul like an incarnation of the Word. May I be
to Him a humanity to swell in which He renews all His mystery.

And You, oh Father, lean towards Your little creature. See in her only the beloved
in whom You have placed all Your delights. O my Three, my All, my Beatitude, infinite
solitude, immensity in which I lose myself, I surrender myself to You as a prey. Bury
Yourself in me so that I may bury myself in You while waiting to contemplate in Your
light the abyss of Your greatness.

So be it. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so be it.