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If Thomas Aquinas clearly distinguishes the indwelling in the soul by sanctifying grace, which is common to the entire Trinity, and missions by the gifts of wisdom and love, which are proper to the Son and the Holy Spirit, this formal distinction ought not to be hardened and schematized by the interpreter to the point of introducing or reintroducing into Aquinas’ Trinitarian theology a disjunction between the unity of essence and the Trinity of persons for which he has often been blamed. The grace of indwelling would in that case amount to nothing more than a tendency towards God’s undivided substance, by itself incapable of receiving the distinctive and properly Trinitarian presence of persons coming to make their dwelling in the sanctified creature. Drawing its inspiration from the hermeneutic once supported by Fr. Ambroise Gardeil, the present article seeks to go beyond this sterile duality and propose a broader approach, better integrated with different modes of the divine presence within us (immensity, indwelling, missions).