380 ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF 



Simalqne demirantibns 

 Linguis loquuntiir omnium, 

 ludaea tunc incrednla, 

 Vesana lorvo spiritu, 

 Madere mnsto sobiios 

 Cliristi fideles increpat. 

 Sed editis miraculis 

 Occui rit & docet Petrns, 

 Falsum profari perfidos, 

 loele teste conipiobans. 

 Deo Fatri sit gloria, 

 Et Filio, qui a mortuis 

 Surrexit, ac Paraclito, 

 In saeculorum saecula. 



12. TRINITY SUNDAY. 



Dominice S. Trinitatis. 

 Dimanche de la Trinite. — Fr. 



Obs. On this festival the Church commemorates the mystery of 

 the Holy Trinity. 



Christ our Lord, says the historian, before his ascension into 

 heaven commissioned his apostles to go and preach to all nations 

 the adorable mystery of the Blessed Trinity, and to baptize those 

 who should believe in him : " In the name of the Father, and of 

 the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Matt, xxviii. 19. These words 

 alone, says a late writer, should suffice to confound the Arians, 

 Socinians, and all other ancient and modern enemies of this funda- 

 mental article of the Christian faith. By saying. In the name. Our 

 Lord here teaches the unity of God in three distinct persons; and 

 indeed almost every page both of the Old and Xew Testamer.t 

 proclaims that there is only one God, and that there can be no more. 

 But that in this most simple and strict unity in God there is a Tri- 

 nity of really distinct subsisting persons is clearly expressed by the 

 same words of Christ. Reason can never attain this mystery, as 

 our Lord himself declares, in Matt. xi. 27, xvi. 17. 



Hymnui in Dom. 5. Trinitatis, at Matins. 



Snmmae Parens clenientiae, 

 Miindi regis qui macliinam, 

 Unius et substantiae, 

 Trinu^que personis Deus. 

 Da dexteram surgeutilms, 

 Exurgat ut mens sobria, 

 Flagrans Jc in laudem Dei 

 Grates rependat debitas. 

 Deo Patri sit gloria, 

 Xatoque Patris Unico, 

 Cum Spiritu Paraclito, 

 In sempiterna saecula. 



^t yespers. 

 lam Sol recedit igneus : 

 Tu lux perennis, vnitas, 



