The Most Holy Trinity

On this Sunday after Pentecost we celebrate the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. Let us not forget how the trinity works in our lives! “In these three truths – God loves you; Christ is your Saviour; he is alive – we see God the Father and Jesus. Wherever the Father and the Son are, there too is the Holy Spirit. He is the one who quietly opens hearts to receive that message.” ( Francis, Christus Vivit, no. 130)

Saint of the Week Father’s Day Prayer Aloysius Gonzaga 1568 – 1591 All may stretch out their hands over the Feast Day—June 21 father(s) in a gesture of blessing. Born to a noble Italian family, Aloysius served May God, who gives life on earth and in as a page in Spain and . His father opposed heaven, lead you to walk by the light of a religious vocation, planning instead a military faith and so help your children attain the career for his oldest son. But Aloysius joined good things Christ has promised us. the Jesuits in in 1585, taking his vows two years later. His health had been compromised R/. Amen. by kidney disease, but he served in a Jesuit hos- pital opened in Rome when plague struck the city. He died of plague while ministering to the sick. St. , his spiritual director, said the young Jesuit’s austere religious prac- tices and penances were so extreme that others should not follow them. Canonized in 1726, Aloysius later was declared protector of young students and patron of Catholic youth.

Image: De heilige Aloysius van Gonzaga in gebed, Giuseppe Antonio Pianca, 1713 - 1757, Rijks Museum

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