15 June 2025 (Sunday) / The Most Holy Trinity ‐ Solemnity / The Holy Trinity Solemnity

15 June 2025 (Sunday)

The Most Holy Trinity ‐ Solemnity.

The Holy Trinity Solemnity.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: Proverbs 8: 22-31

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 8: 4-5, 6-7, 8-9

Second Reading: Romans 5: 1-5

Alleluia: Revelation 1: 8

Gospel: John 16: 12-15

First Reading : Proverbs 8:22‐31

The Wisdom of God cries aloud:

The Lord created me when his purpose first unfolded, before the oldest of his works. From everlasting I was firmly set, from the beginning, before earth came into being. The deep was not, when I was born, there were no springs to gush with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I came to birth; before he made the earth, the countryside, or the first grains of the world’s dust. When he fixed the heavens firm, I was there, when he drew a ring on the surface of the deep, when he thickened the clouds above, when he fixed fast the springs of the deep, when he assigned the sea its boundaries – and the waters will not invade the shore – when he laid down the foundations of the earth, I was by his side, a master craftsman, delighting him day after day, ever at play in his presence, at play everywhere in his world, delighting to be with the sons of men.

Responsive Psalm : Psalm 8:4‐9

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

When I see the heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and the stars which you arranged, what is man that you should keep him in mind, mortal man that you care for him?

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

Yet you have made him little less than a god; with glory and honour you crowned him, gave him power over the works of your hand, put all things under his feet.

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

All of them, sheep and cattle, yes, even the savage beasts, birds of the air, and fish that make their way through the waters.

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

Second Reading : Romans 5:1‐5

Alleluia: Revelation 1: 8

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

8 Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; to God who is, who was, and who is to come.

(8. 'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty).

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God’s glory. But that is not all we can boast about; we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.

Gospel : John 16:12‐15

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He will glorify me, since all he tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: All he tells you will be taken from what is mine.’

For our reflection today:

The Father - the Son - the Holy Spirit. Divine Unity of the Trinity. Christ pronounced this mystery in human words. And he left it to the Holy Spirit, at his coming: 'When the Spirit of truth will come, he will guide you into all truth' (John 16: 13). Each of us is introduced into this ‘whole truth’ already through Baptism. We live by this truth daily, when we begin prayer and work ‘in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’. Why, in pronouncing with these words the name of the inscrutable divine mystery, the name of the living God who Is, do we at the same time, on our foreheads, shoulders and hearts, make the sign of the Cross? Because the Cross is the final word of God's Trinitarian mystery in the history of the salvation of mankind. When Christ says of the Holy Spirit: ‘he will take of mine and proclaim it to you’, these words refer in a special way to the sacrifice of the Cross. The living God has definitively entered the history of creation, the history of mankind, precisely through this sacrifice. Man, looking at the architecture of the cosmos, enters into the depths of the Creator's eternal Wisdom. Man, looking at the Cross, knows the love that permeates this Wisdom and all His work. He knows the love that has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit (cf. Rom 5:5).He knows that ‘God is love’ (1 John 4: 16).That is why the Holy Spirit has been given to us has been given to our hearts. It was given in the Cross of Christ, in his redemptive sacrifice. God is love. This is the name of Him who Is. In this name ‘we stand and boast in hope of the glory of God’ (cf. Rom 5:2).Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, to God who is, who was, and who is to come!

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,

Most High Servant,

Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed  and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)