And in the same showing [of Christ
bleeding on the Cross) suddenly the Trinity almost filled my heart with joy.
(And I understood it shall be like that in heaven without end for all that
shall come there.) For the Trinity is God, God is the Trinity; the Trinity is
our Maker, the Trinity is our Keeper, the Trinity is our everlasting Lover, the
Trinity is our endless Joy and Bliss, by our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ch. 4)
[Our Lord God] made everything in fullness of goodness, and therefore
the Blessed Trinity is always completely pleased with all His works. And all
this He showed most blessedly, meaning this: "See, I am God. See, I am in
everything. See, I do everything. See, I never lift my hands from my works, nor
ever shall, without end. See, I lead everything to the end I ordained for it
from without beginning by the same Power, Wisdom, and Love with which I made
it. How would anything be amiss?" (Ch. 11)
Ah, Jesus wishes that we take heed to the bliss of our salvation that is
in the blessed Trinity and that we desire to have as much spiritual pleasure,
with His grace, as was said before. (That is to say, that the pleasure of our
salvation be like to the joy that Christ has about our salvation as much as it
can be while we are here.) The whole Trinity acted in the Passion of Christ
(ministering an abundance of strengths and plenitude of grace to us by Him) but
only the Maiden's son suffered (about which the whole blessed Trinity endlessly
rejoices). (Ch. 23)
And so our good Lord replied to all the questions and doubts that I
could raise, saying most reassuringly: "I am able to make everything well,
and I know how to make everything well, and I wish to make everything well, and
I shall make everything well; and thou shalt see for thyself that all manner of
things shall be well. Where He says, "I am able," I understand as
referring to the Father; and where He says, "I know how," I
understand as referring to the Son; and where He says, "I wish to," I
understand as referring to the Holy Spirit; and where He says, "I
shall," I understand as referring to the unity of the blessed Trinity
(three persons and one truth); and where He says, "Thou shalt see for
thyself," I understand the one-ing of all mankind that shall be saved into
the blissful Trinity. (Ch. 31)
The all Powerful truth of the Trinity is our Father, for He created us
and keeps us within Him; and the deep Wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother
in whom we are all enclosed; the exalted Goodness of the Trinity is our Lord
and in Him we are enclosed and He in us. (Ch. 54)
I beheld the action of all the blessed Trinity. In that sight I
saw and understood these three aspects: the aspect of the Fatherhood, the
aspect of the Motherhood, and the aspect of the Lordhood, in one God. (Ch. 58)
And what can make us rejoice in God more than to see in Him that He
rejoices in us, the highest of all His works? For I saw in the same showing
that if the blessed Trinity could have made man's soul any better, any more
beautiful, any nobler than it was made, He would not have been wholly pleased
with the creation of man's soul. But because He made man's soul as fair, as
good, as precious a creature as He could make it, therefore the Blessed Trinity
is wholly pleased without end in the creation of man's soul, and He wills that
our hearts be powerfully raised above the depths of the earth and all vain
sorrows, and rejoice in Him. (Ch. 67)