Today is June 15, The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
We read today on the feast of the Holy Trinity, “Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us” (Rom 5:5).
St. Paul’s words, “the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit,” beautifully expresses the action of the Trinity in our lives. And it brings me to today’s key insight: devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus doesn’t distract us from the Trinity — it leads us deeper into it.
In 1956, Pope Pius XII wrote the encyclical Haurietis aquas, marking the centenary of the universal feast of the Sacred Heart. The world was still reeling from the devastation of war and the Holy Father wanted to re-anchor the Church in the love that alone can heal and restore: the love of Christ flowing from his Heart.
Revealing the love of the Trinity
Pius XII makes a powerful point: the Sacred Heart reveals the love of the Trinity. The divine love that brings about our redemption — the love of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit — overflowed into the human will of Christ and into his Sacred Heart. That love led him to shed his blood for us. The mystery of the Trinity, then, is not far off or abstract. It’s made visible in the pierced Heart of Jesus.
Because Jesus is fully God and fully man, his Sacred Heart becomes our entry point into the inner life of God. In Jesus, humanity and divinity are united, and through him we are drawn into the very love of the Trinity.
So today, let’s ask for the grace that our devotion to the Sacred Heart would draw us into deeper contemplation of the Trinity. That through Jesus — through his human heart — we would come to know the Father’s mercy and be filled with the Spirit’s love.
Let us pray,
God our Father, who by sending into the world the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification made known to the human race your wondrous mystery, grant us, we pray, that in professing the true faith, we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
