Sunday, May 26 : Blessed Columba Marmion

What is this glory that the divine persons render to each other? In His essence God is not only great, magnus, but also the object of all praise. (Ps. 47:1) It is preeminently fitting that he should receive the glory due His majesty. It is fitting that He be glorified in himself by a praise corresponding to the immensity of power and wisdom, and of love which are in Him. The Father engenders the Son, from all eternity He communicates to Him that supreme gift, the life and the perfection of the divinity. He communicates to Him all that He is in himself except that which is proper to Him, His paternity. Being His perfect substantial image, the Word is the “the splendor of the Glory of the Father.’ (Heb. 1:3). Born of the focus of all light, His brilliance is reflected back like an unbroken canticle towards Him from whom He comes. “All things are mine and all that is mine is yours” (Jn 17:10) Thus by the natural impulse of His filiation the Son receiprocates to the Father all that He has from Him. The Holy Spirit, who is charity, has His exclusive source of origin in the love between the Father and the Son. This union of infinite love between the three persons effects the eternal communication of life in the bosum of the trinity, Such is the Glory which God renders to Himself in the sacred intimacy which is His eternal life.

Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team