How to pray to the Blessed Trinity?

PRAYERS TO THE BLESSED TRINITY

The Church teaches us to begin and end our prayers with the Sign of the Cross.  This visible sign is a powerful profession of our faith in the existence of the Holy Trinity.  Today’s feast prompts us to examine what use we make of this prayer.  Because we recite it so often, we can easily be too familiar with this prayer and fail to get the best out of it.  Perhaps these thoughts may help you appreciate this prayer even more.  With our three fingers, not just one, we touch our head immediately reminding ourselves that there are Three Persons in the Blessed Trinity, Three Persons in One God.  The fact that we touch our heads shows our assent of Faith, as we pronounce the name of the Father, our Divine Creator.  It’s a dedication of our minds to God.  Our fingertips next come to rest at the base of our heart, a symbol of love.  We speak the name of the great Love, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, God-Man, our Saviour and Brother.  The sign is concluded as the fingers move from left shoulder to right shoulder, signifying eagerness to give our arms and hands to good works under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  Finally, our hands interlock, showing we are united and single-minded in our efforts.  With this conclusive gesture we say “Amen” – so be it.

Our heavenly Father loves each one of His children so dearly and He never wants to lose one of them.  So, here’s a prayer we can say to God the Father in our Morning Prayers.  “Heavenly Father, do not consider what we truly deserve but forgive us our sins and lead us all to Heaven there to be happy with you for ever.” 

Another powerful prayer Jesus would like us to say and that is the one He taught St. Gertrude to teach us to say, “Eternal Father, I offer you the most precious Blood of Your Divine Son Jesus in union with all the Holy Masses being offered today throughout the world for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.”  Jesus has said that whenever this prayer is said His Father will release many souls from Purgatory.

Jesus once told a saint that at Holy Communion people pour out all their problems and troubles to Him.  He likes us to do that, but what He wants most of all is to say the three simple words, “I love You.”  Let us never fail to say them every time we come to Holy Communion.  Together when we say this prayer, we could add a word of thanks.  So, among our first words at Holy Communion we can say.  “I love You Jesus and thank You for all You have done for me.”

The word Jesus when said with love is a prayer in itself.  In time of temptation it drives Satan back to Hell.  Of all names it is the Name he detests most.

Finally, let us never forget the Holy Spirit because He is the Gift of the Father and the Son to us.  They have sent us the Holy Spirit so that we can think and act like Jesus.  A lovely prayer I like to say in the morning and during the day is, “Give me the strength Holy Spirit to do the work of this day and at it’s close to be found worthy of your trust in me.”  Because you have said this prayer to the Holy Spirit at the start of the day, we can follow it through by saying at the end of the day, “Holy Spirit, how did we get on today.”  Notice you are not just saying, “How did I get on?” but “How did we get on?”  The Holy Spirit and I.  We will find that when we involved the Holy Spirit we acted like Jesus, but when we went on our own without the Holy Spirit we probably did not think or act like Jesus.

Of course, another beautiful prayer the Church teaches us is the ‘Glory be…”  This was the favourite prayer of St. Bede the Venerable.  It was the very last prayer he recited before he died. We can say this prayer many times a day to remind ourselves of the Blessed Trinity living within us and give glory and praise to the Three Person in God.  Let us conclude with this prayer.  Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.  As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end.  Amen.

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