The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

by Fr. John Granato  |  06/15/2025  |  Words from Fr. John

My Dear Friends,

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. It is the greatest of all mysteries in our faith precisely because it is the life of God himself, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. All other mysteries flow from this mystery. God existed for all time because he exists outside of time. Indeed, he created time when he created the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon and all living creatures. God did not need to create; he chose to create because of love.

Love is the essence of God, the name of God, which is why the greatest of all commandments is for us to love God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength. He created men and women in order for us to participate in the life of the Trinity. The Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father and that bond of love between Father and Son is the Holy Spirit. It is a creative love. It is this creative love that creates for men and women the ability to procreate, to participate in creation by the very act of matrimony, a man leaving his father and mother and clinging to his wife. The two then become one flesh. They are then called to be fruitful and multiply.

In a sense, we also become one flesh at the Wedding Banquet of the Lamb. We come one flesh with our Lord when we consume the flesh of the Son of Man in Holy Communion. The very act of Holy Communion then leads us individually to be fruitful and multiply as well, and we do this by uniting our faith and our love with the Second Person of the Trinity. He now lives in us as we leave Mass so that we can bear fruit that will last by living the life of the Spirit. On this Trinity Sunday we also celebrate Father’s Day as we honor our human fathers who are called to be selfless and sacrificial in their love for their wives and for their children.

The word mystery in Greek is translated into Latin as sacramentum, so the Sacrament of Matrimony is also a mystery where a man and a woman come together and create new life and become and image of Christ’s love for his bride, the Church. To live this sacrament well means we must live in fidelity to Christ. And by living in Christ we truly participate in the life of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. This is God’s name, and this is what separates us from all other religions, for the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit is truly the name of Love.

God bless!