Moving images, deep and piercing and rewarding. Perhaps they are enough for our prayer this week: remembering in silence and depth.

If you look at it, you will see that the fledgling Church had discovered the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, no small thing. The transcendent God became as close as the cross, and then stayed enigmatically within us. The Church and we now know the Trinity, by its actions on earth, not by all the learned treatises throughout the ages. We are grateful to Augustine and Aquinas and Rahner and von Balthasar, but above all we give our thanks to God who is love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

. . . . What are we left with, after this Lent and Holy Week and Easter and Ascension and Pentecost? The face of God, revealed in the loving interactions that are the Trinity. We have become quietly the “heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.” We are to “suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him” (Second Reading). Such a great commissioning.

Fr. John Foley, S. J. of the Center for Liturgy
Creighton University