Refrain: Blessed be the One who sends you!
Take as your symbols: the sun for the Father,
light for the Son,
heat for the Holy Spirit.
Though he is only one in being
we see him in trinity.
Who, indeed, can grasp the inexplicable?
He who is unique is also multiple: one is formed of three
and three of one –
What great mystery! What manifest wonder!
The sun is distinct from its shining
even while adhering to it,
for its ray is also sun.
Yet no one speaks of two suns
even though, here below,
the sun's ray is also sun.
No more do we say there would be two Gods.
Our Lord himself, is he not God?
He is also raised above all creatures.
Who can show how or where
the sun's ray and its heat are joined,
free as they are?
Neither separated nor confused,
united and yet distinct,
free but bound: O wonder!
Who, by studying them, can master them?
Yet do they not seem
so simple, so uncomplicated?...
Whereas the sun remains whole above,
its brilliance and heat are a clear symbol
for those of us below.
Indeed, its shining has come down to earth
and remains in our sight
as though clothing our flesh.
When our eyes close like those of the dead
at the time of sleeping, it leaves them
who will later awake.
But how light penetrates the eye
no one knows.
Even so was it with our Lord in the womb...
Even so, our Saviour
put on a human body in all its weakness
that he might come to sanctify the world.
Yet, when the sun's ray returns to its source,
it has still not been separated
from the one who gave it birth.
It leaves its heat to those below
as our Lord left the Holy Spirit
to the disciples.
Consider these images within the created world;
as for the Three, allow yourself no doubt
lest you be lost!
I have clarified for you what was obscure:
how Three form but One,
A Trinity composing one single essence!
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