Most Holy Trinity
The theme of today’s feast is:
Readings for: Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity:
Reading 1 Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9
Psalm Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56
Reading 2 2 Corinthians 13:11-13
Gospel John 3:16-18
REFLECTIONS:… from Father Daniel
The theme of today’s feast is: IN what kind of God do you believe? All three readings teach us today something about the nature of God. the first tells us that the biblical God is quite different from the god worshipped by people of other religions. God does not become angry, is not willful , does not punish us and is not spying on us. The Gospel tells us that he has not moved away from us, but has joined his life to the world and to ours. The second reading teaches us that God is family, a family open to us all.
The Most Holy Trinity is one of the basic mysteries of our Christian faith, and in today’s preface to the Eucharistic prayer we proclaim our faith in “Three persons equal in majesty, undivided in splendor, Yet One Lord, One God.” One of the most important things about a mystery is that we can know some things about it but we cannot understand it fully. That is the way the Trinity has always been, because God is too great for our minds to understand. In the words of St. Augustine, “IF we understand Him, he is not God.”
For Christians, Why should the Most Holy Trinity matter? Because God wants to reveal God’s self to us just as two lovers want to share with each other. God wants us to know Him as well as is possible because He loves us and wants us to love him. The Trinity is the only way that we can know the greatness of Jesus and the love Jesus has for us that our God humbled himself totally for our sake. The persons of the Trinity are united in love, and God is a model for how he would want us to be - united in one, loving and caring about each other. Remember, God puts people in your path to get your attention, and there is nothing more touching than knowing that people are smiling or happy because of you.
