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The Trinity
 


Jesus revealed to us the mystery of God: he, the Son, made us know the Father who is in Heaven, and gave us the Holy Spirit, the Love of the Father and of the Son. Christian theology synthesizes the truth of God with this expression: only one substance in three persons. God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.

 
Angelus Address
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
22 May 2005

 
 
 
The Trinity
 


In him we live and move and have our being", St Paul said at the Areopagus of Athens (Acts 17: 28). The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: love alone makes us happy because we live in a relationship, and we live to love and to be loved.

 
Angelus Address
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
St Peter's Square
7 June 2009

 
 
 
The Trinity
 


Jesus revealed to us that God is love "not in the oneness of a single Person, but in the Trinity of one substance". He is the Creator and merciful Father; he is the Only-Begotten Son, eternal Wisdom incarnate, who died and rose for us; he is the Holy Spirit who moves all things, cosmos and history, toward their final, full recapitulation. Three Persons who are one God because the Father is love, the Son is love, the Spirit is love.

 
Angelus Address
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
St Peter's Square
7 June 2009

 
 
 
The Trinity
 


Invoking the Blessed Virgin Mary, the first creature to be fully inhabited by the Blessed Trinity, let us ask her protection and help to make good progress on our earthly pilgrimage.

 
Angelus Address
St Peter's Square
30 May 2010

 
 
 
The Trinity
 


The Son, who speaks to the Father, exists… and they are both one in the Spirit, who constitutes, so to speak, the atmosphere of giving and loving, which makes them one God. This unity of love, which is God, is a unity far more sublime than the unity of a last indivisible particle could be. The Triune God himself is the one and only God.

 
Homily at Prayer Vigil
Solemnity of Pentecost
St. Peter's Square
3 June 2006

 
 
 
The Trinity
 


To profess faith in the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – is to believe in one God who is Love (cf. 1 Jn 4:8): the Father, who in the fullness of time sent his Son for our salvation; Jesus Christ, who in the mystery of his death and resurrection redeemed the world; the Holy Spirit, who leads the Church across the centuries as we await the Lord’s glorious return.

 
Apostolic Letter
“MOTU PROPRIO DATA”
PORTA FIDEI
For the indication of the Year of Faith

 
 
 
The Trinity
 


God is One and Three: he is not an eternal solitude; rather, he is an eternal love that is based on the reciprocity of the Persons, a love that is the first cause, the origin, and the foundation of all being and of every form of life.

 
Homily
Feast of the Holy Trinity
Cathedral of Bayeux
Normandy, France
6 June 2004

 
 
 
The Trinity
 


In the liturgy Jesus prays with us, we pray with Jesus, and so we enter into real contact with God, we enter into the mystery of eternal love of the Most Holy Trinity.

 
Homily
Parish of Saint Anne
Vatican
5 February 2006

 

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