This week’s Clergy Corner
taken from the May 31st Bulletin:
Today the Church celebrates Trinity Sunday. The central doctrine of the Catholic faith is the mystery of the Holy Trinity. This celebration provides us with the opportunity to think about God. We have a God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe in three persons in one God. The Holy Trinity is the great mystery of our faith.
The dogma of the Trinity is more than mere words or ideas. God is always more than what we can say. The Trinity, if really believed, makes a real difference in the way we live. As we profess our faith today in the trinity of Persons in the one God, may we also pray to them to help us become the kind of persons we are meant to be— true children of God our Father, living images of Jesus his Son and consecrated temples of the Holy Spirit.
Each one of us is called to be a manifestation of the Trinity. Each one of us is called to be a reflection of their love, to be a visible sign of their communion. One mirrors the “face” of God not through concepts but through love. A person truly alive and loving is the mirror of the Trinity. As St. Augustine wrote, “If you see love, you see the Trinity.” When we are drawn in the unity of the Trinity, we discover the truth about ourselves, that we are persons and yet brothers and sisters in the community of humankind. God wants us to pattern our human community after the Trinitarian community whose relationship is built on love.
The inadequacy of our “God-talk” and the mystery of God are best understood in the reality of God’s love for us. The Trinity is expressed in the threefold divine love: God the Father’s loving creation of us and the world; God’s forgiving love made visible in Jesus; Christ and God’s abiding love through the indwelling of the Spirit. We could spend a lifetime talking about the Triune God of love. Better than talk, however, is the experience of God’s love and our sharing that love with one another. Trinity is the unbounded mystery of God’s love at work within us.
On the solemnity of the Holy Trinity, we praise God the Father for sending the Son to save us from our sins and the Holy Spirit to remain with us always. Let us praise and give thanks to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for the infinite love and mercy we have received. Amen.
– Fr. Cosme