In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence. I ask you for pardon of my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My mother immaculate, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

The very first point in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is like a summary somehow

of the whole work of salvation.

This great, perhaps the greatest ever and richest explanation of the faith of the church, the catechism which is a fruit of the Second Vatican Council,

the catechism which was promulgated by St. John Paul II 30 years ago this year,

it's a very rich document, promulgated by St. John Paul II 30 years ago this year.

It's a very rich document, but it begins with this point.

Point number one.

God infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness, freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls

man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together

all men scattered and divided by sin into the unity of his family, the church. The solemnity

of the Most Blessed Trinity is about this perfection of God in his own blessed life

and at the same time about God's loving invitation to all people to enter into a share in that life.

This is all explained only by the dynamic of love.

God who is all perfect, who is all blessed,

who is completely self-deficient,

has no need of us.

But because he is love,

he reaches out to us and draws us into his divine life, into the life of the Blessed Trinity. So when we pray about this mystery of the Blessed Trinity, on the one hand, it can seem a bit daunting.

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