Intensely Aware of the Blessed Trinity

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The Trinity by Artus Wolffort, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

An instance of this is the Carmelite of Dijon, Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity. She became intensely aware of the indwelling of the Blessed Trinity, centered her whole life upon it, and became very holy in a short time. God seems to have chosen her to help to make this mystery better known, for both during her brief lifetime and since her death in 1906, many have been drawn toward it by her example. If we make up our minds to try, we shall be helped by the Holy Spirit. ... Let us take the sign of the cross as an illustration of this. ...

The sign of the cross is meant to express our faith in the mysteries of the Blessed Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and of the crucifixion of the sweet Word Incarnate: it is the briefest act of adoration and faith in these two great mysteries and also in that of the in dwelling Trinity. It reminds us of the connection between these mysteries, and that the crucified Word Incarnate is the Way to the Blessed Trinity. We can become intimate with the divine Persons as one and as three only through him and his cross, and so it is important that we should be reminded of this fundamental truth by the sign of the cross. It is the sign of our adoption, our life. ...

The more we remember the indwelling of the Blessed Trinity, the more we shall learn to see all the truths and all the gifts of our faith in relation to it. There are so many things that can gradually become associated with
it and serve as reminders. Those of us who say, "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit," many times a day: we can say it to the Trinity dwelling within us. Above all, the Mass: we can offer the Mass
in honor of the Trinity, the Three Persons who are in possession of us, so that a correspondence of thought is set up. Whenever we are at Mass we shall think of the indwelling Trinity, and whenever we think of them,
we shall link it with the Mass, the sacrifice of our redemption and adoption.

The Blessed Sacrament is therefore included. Where is the link there? Our Lord remains with us as Emmanuel, "God with us." He instituted the Blessed Sacrament as a continuation of the Incarnation, and he is there for the same reasons as when he was on earth: not only to be with us himself but to deepen and foster our union with the Blessed Trinity in our souls. This is why he feeds us with himself, just as it is the reason why he taught and suffered and died. By shedding his Precious Blood, he established the indwelling of the Trinity in our souls, both on earth and in heaven, for heaven is a continuation of the life we have lived on earth since baptism.