May the Most Holy Trinity bless you with peace and health.
It is 30th May 2021. We celebrate the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
We reflect from Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40; Romans 8:14-17; and the Gospel from Matthew 28:16-20.
A little boy asked his mother where God is. Without hesitation, mother replied to him that God is in our hearts. He was not convinced and replying to the mother that our hearts are so tiny how could it be possible for such a big God could fit in the heart. The mother explained him philosophically, theologically, empirically and she could not convince the boy. So, the mother asked the boy for what he thinks. The boy replied to the mother that we might be so big inside we could accommodate God.
Our hugs now become plastic; love seems to be a fable and fake; communications are formal, and fancy; patience is in peril; peace is in pieces; health is in the porcupine of covid-19 and our life has become virtual not so virtuous. During this very peculiar time we celebrate a feast that is so crucial for our faith, family and befriending the world.
There is only One God and revealed in Three Persons. The central mystery of Christian Faith and life is the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity. St Paul utilizes the Trinitarian formula as begins his epistles: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Cor 13).
God, the Father creates, God, the Son redeems, and God the Holy Spirit purifies and sanctifies us.
More we try to comprehend the Most Trinity; more we complicate it grasping. As much we explain, so much more we run short of expressions on the Holy Trinity. There is no way we can offer a perfect explanation just because it is the mystery not a myth and the dogma not a description of God.
Trinity is the model for our human interactions, relationships, and communication. There is no need to do a critical analysis on how the Holy Trinity has come about.
The first reading so beautifully presents the Father-God and the outstanding and uncompromising protection to humanity that believes in God, the Father. The God who spoke in the fire, the God who claimed our inheritance inviting us to listen, learn and lean on for the rest of the life to be happy, contented, and conscious our providence in God.
The second reading reminds us that we are the children of God and so we need to display the attitudes of the same. We have the privilege to call God ‘Abba, Father.’ We are co-heirs and coordinators, collaborators of God. By participating in the daily struggles, sufferings, and challenges, we glorify God. The second Person of the Holy Trinity has brought us all so closer to God by His love.
As a believer in the Father and the Son, Jesus we are given the authority to bring more persons closer to ever-loving God as disciples, and followers of Jesus. The Gospel expounds the name of Holy Trinity in the Sacrament of the Baptism that offers hope to believe and behave that Jesus is with us till end of the world.
Love is the presence in the Divine Three. Father loved the world and so we have the Son Jesus. The Son loved the humanity; hence we enjoy the salvation offered in and through Him by embracing the presence of the Holy Spirit. Love, lover, and loving are three independent and separate, yet they are one. God, the Father remains as the loving Father while the Son Jesus, the Way to the Father and the Holy Spirit is the indwelling of God. It is the love of God that binds us, heals us, and makes us children of God (1 John 4:7; Mat. 5:44-45)
We need to include the sign of the cross using the trinitarian formula in all we do, say and plan. Whether we begin a prayer, a project, or anything we need to remember the Divine Three Persons so as to be protected and blessed.
Each Trinitarian Person is God in nature, person, relation, and substance. Three persons and two processions. The Son proceeds from the Father, the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
Catechism (2205) provides us another way of accepting and believing the Holy Trinity in relation to family. “The Christian family is a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit.” There is no competition, complain among the Three Divine Person rather complementing each other doing their role responsibly. Just like them we are moulded out of them and therefore to live lovingly like the Father, forgiving like the Son and witnessing like the Holy Spirit.
“Where there is love, there is Holy Trinity. “says St. Augustine.
We are the temples of the Holy Spirit. And so let us bless others in the name of Holy Trinity. In the name of Trinity, we are baptised, and sins are forgiven. We celebrate the Eucharist in the name of the same Trinity.
Let us not compare with others rather to become responsible with all that is entrusted to us. We continue to grow in loving relationship with one another emulating the examples of the Trinity. Let us continue to believe in His promise: “know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.” (Mt.28:20). May you have a good day. May Holy Trinity bless you.