The Trinity is present in those souls in the state of grace
The New Testament speaks of a special presence of God in the just. Christ’s words bring us a new light and show us that it is the divine persons themselves who come to dwell in us. “Anyone who loves me will be true to my word, and my Father will love him; we will come to him and make our dwelling place with him” (John 14:23). Those who come are Those who love: the divine persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that Spirit of Love promised, moreover, by our Lord and visibly sent on Pentecost. “We will come to him”, to the just soul who loves God, and “We will come” not only in a transitory, passing manner, but “We will make our dwelling place in him”. That is to say, We will dwell in him as long as he remains just, or in a state of grace, as long as he preserves charity. These were our Lord’s own words.
We Must Respond to God’s Love
In the Old Testament we read: “Into a soul that plots evil wisdom enters not, nor dwells she in a body under debt of sin” (Wisdom 1:4). Without sanctifying grace and charity, God does not, in fact, dwell in us. It is not sufficient to know him by a natural philosophical knowledge, or even by a supernatural knowledge of imperfect faith united to hope, as the believer in the state of mortal sin knows him. God is, so to speak, distant from a believer who is turned away from him. We must be able to know him by living Faith and the gifts of the Holy Spirit connected with charity. That the divine persons may dwell in us, we must be able to know them in a loving manner, based on infused charity. This knowledge of God present in us springs from faith illuminated by the gifts of wisdom and understanding which flow from love.
We are Living Temples of the Lord
The Blessed Trinity dwells, in the just soul. The Blessed Trinity dwells in a just soul as in a living temple. And even on earth the Blessed Trinity, without our seeing the divine persons, dwell in us in order to unite with us more and more. The intimate presence of the Blessed Trinity in us does not dispense us, certainly, from approaching the Eucharist table or from praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament. In the Eucharist, Jesus Christ the second person of the Blessed Trinity is present body, blood, soul, and divinity. Jesus the Son of God leads us into a more intimate union with the blessed trinity.
Our Duties toward the Divine Guests
We should think of our divine guests often and we should tell ourselves that God lives in us. We can consecrate our days and our hours, to the divine persons by saying, “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” We must remember that our Guests are for us the source of light, consolation, and strength. We can pray to the Father as Christ suggests: “Pray to your Father in secret (in your soul): and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.” We can adore the secret Guests saying: “My soul magnifies the Lord.” We believe in him, we should trust absolutely in him. We should love him with increasingly pure, generous, and strong love. If we love him we should imitate him by trying to be good. According to the words of our Savior: “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” We should love our neighbor since Jesus said “That they all may be one, as you Father, are in me, and I in you, I pray that they may be one in us.”
The Holy Spirit in the Mystical Body
The Holy Spirit is the soul of the mystical body, of which Christ is the head. As in our body the soul is entirely in each part, so the Holy Spirit is entirely in the mystical body, entirely in each soul. The Holy Spirit thus brings about the unity of the mystical body much as the soul unifies all the parts of the body. The Holy Spirit is in the mystical body as its sanctifier, the source of all graces. As one advances in the mystical life the soul awakens more and more completely.
