Pope John Paul II was once asked about the happiest day of his life. He was expected to reply that it was the day he was elected Pope. But he replied, “The happiest day of my life was the day of my baptism.”

And this is true for all of us, even if most of us don’t remember our baptism.

On the day of our baptism, the Holy Trinity, in the Person of the Holy Spirit, came to make its home in us. We have become temples of the Holy Spirit. What love could have driven God to want to make his home in us!

We’ll never finish contemplating the mystery that dwells deep within our souls: the Presence of the Holy Trinity. It is through prayer that the Lord will give us the grace to open ourselves, as He wills, when He wills, to His Presence that has made us children of God.

Celebrating the mystery of the Holy Trinity, one God in three Persons, leads us into our own mystery. For if we exist, it is indeed the will of the Holy Trinity, that is, of our Father in Heaven, of his Son Jesus Christ and of the Holy Spirit. We are loved, wanted and desired by each of these three Divine Persons.

And if we exist on this earth, it’s because the Holy Trinity desires each of us, with her, for eternity. We can perceive how little we know those who love us and who, in their plan of love, will never let us go, to the point of leading us to them to contemplate them and satiate ourselves with their Presence for eternity.

Every day we can enter more deeply into the mystery of the Holy Trinity, by making our Sign of the Cross with care and love. With such reverence and depth, we can trace on ourselves the sign of the Cross, which in itself is already a prayer.

May the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Son of God, Spouse of the Holy Spirit and now living in contemplation of our heavenly Father, give us the grace to enter more deeply into the mystery of God’s very Being and his Love for mankind.