Instead, the Trinity is first a communion of Persons we are invited to know. We do not primarily come to know God through intellectual deduction. We come to know God through prayerful union with Him.

“The love for Christ is a live current that comes from God, is transmitted from person to person, and returns to God. It runs a sacred cycle reaching from God to an individual, from the individual to his neighbor, and back through faith to God. He who breaks the circuit at any point breaks the flow of love. He who transmits purely, however small a part of that love, helps establish the circuit for the whole.”

— The Lord by Romano Guardini

Band of Brothers example: “We are paratroopers, we are supposed to be surrounded.”

How is Mary the Mother of the Church?

The Catechism teaches us that hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our ultimate happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promise and not relying on our own strength, but on the help of the Holy Spirit's grace.

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." — Andy Dufresne

It is just not possible to invite the Holy Spirit to come, to visit, and to fill us on condition that the Spirit leave us, thank you, just as we were before.

“Jesus wants you to know him in truth and can be relied on to help you if you do what you can, humbly, trustfully. Eat his words, take them right down into your heart, live with them.” —Sister Ruth Burrows, Essence of Prayer

“If you want to approach the Bible in a way worthy of it, you must surrender to the Word present in every syllable, and be totally defenseless before him. You are placing yourself unconditionally before a living person, ready to follow him as soon as he gives you a sign.”

— This Is the Day the Lord Has Made: 365 Daily Meditations by Stinissen Wilfrid

“She knows that God will give as much as we can or desire to receive. That is why she does all she can to clear away all obstacles, so that we become total openness. Wherever she discovers the beginning of a Yes, she lets something of her absolute Yes slip in.” — Mary in the Bible and in Our Lives by Wilfrid