Our Lady teaches us how to do devotion to the Trinity

Mary and the Trinity.

St. Gregory the Wonderworker, having prayed to God to illuminate him on this mystery, appeared to him Maria SS. who commissioned St. John Ev. say explain it to him; and he wrote down the teachings he had.

PRACTICES. 1) The sign of the Cross. By dying on the cross and teaching the formula of Baptism, Jesus provided the two elements that make it up; there was nothing to join them together. At first, however, we limited ourselves to a cross on the forehead. Prudentius (XNUMXth century) speaks of a small cross on his lips, as is now done in the Gospel. The current cross sign is found in use in the East in the century. VIII. For the West we have no testimony prior to the century. XII. At first it was done with three fingers, in memory of the Trinity: by the Benedictines the use of doing it with all fingers was introduced.

2) The Gloria Patri. It is the best known prayer after the Pater and the Ave. it is the Church's memory, which for 15 centuries it has not ceased to repeat in its liturgy. It is called Dossology (praise) minor, to distinguish it from the major one, namely the Gloria in excelsis.

At first it was accompanied by a genuflection. Even now the priest in the liturgical prayers and the faithful in the private recitation of the Angelus and the Rosary to Glory bow their heads. It would be to be hoped that such a beautiful prayer was not only considered as an appendix of the Pater and of the Hail or of the Psalms, but formed a prayer of praise and adoration of the Trinity in itself. For the recitation of 3 Gloria to thank God for the privileges granted to Maria SS.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TREATY we can do to the Trinity is to be pleased that its uncreated, infinite, eternal, essential glory, that which God has in himself, for himself, for himself, that the 3 divine people give each other, that glory that è God himself, never fail, never be diminished by all the efforts of hell. Here is the meaning of Glory. But with it we still intend to hope that the intrinsic is added to this intrinsic glory. We would like all reasonable beings to know him, love him and obey him now and always. But what a contradiction if, while reciting this prayer, we were not in the grace of God and were not doing his will!

S. BEDA said: "God praises more than works with words". However, he was excellent in praising him with words and deeds and died on the day of Ascension (731) singing the Glory in chorus and went on to sing it in heaven with the blessed for all eternity.