SOLEMNITY OF THE HOLY TRINITY

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but might have eternal life”  

Jn. 3, 16-18

Rev. Alexander Diaz

This Sunday we celebrate  The Solemnity of the Holy Trinity, a profound mystery and only thru the light of faith can we truly understand its’ fullness, a simple and short reasoning is not enough to understand such huge mystery.  All our lives are marked with the gift of the Trinity. 

When we are born to the supernatural life thru baptismal grace, we do so in a trinitary manner, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Also, when we begin the Holy Eucharist, it is done in the same manner, hence all we do in our daily lives is marked by the Holy Trinity. 

 The Trinity is a mystery of Communion , is God in us, God with us and God above us.  Is the mystery that penetrates and wraps our lives and our history.   The Spirit is God within us.

From Him comes our hope that wanders toward the fulfillment with Christ. He inspired the prophets with the Word of God, He acts in the hearts of the believers to accept the Word of God,  He gathers God’s children around the Son.  He inspires the prayers we direct to the Father.  He has been poured out in our hearts and He is more intimate within us than we are to ourselves.   Is the Son of God with us, the One who was born to be our brother, our companion, our neighbor. 

The Son is the face of God, who sees the Son sees the Father. It is His word made flesh in the womb of Mary, in front of whom is brought to date our maximum responsibility.   The Father is the one who summons us to Jesus with His Word and to whom we go thru Jesus with the impulses of the Holy Spirit. 

It is God above us and in front of us, Who Is to be seen and to come, the reservation of our infinite hope.   The Holy Trinity is exactly the same God that have come in communion with us.  Is the Father who has become “our Father”, is the Son who has become our brother, is the Spirit who has become our life.  The Holy Trinity is the mystery that establishes our coexistence. 

In order to live this mystery it is required that all of us be “ourselves” in front of the Father who summons us, that we all become “brothers” in the Son who accompany us and that we all participate in the same feeling, the same hope, the same love, and the same life, thanks to the Spirit that has been poured in our hearts.  ¿How can we explain that God is one, at the same time is Father, Son and Holy Spirit?

Maybe we might say that in each love there are always three realities or subjects: one that loves, one that is loved and the love that unites both.   In a general line, this shows us that the loving reality of God is His relationship with the human being.   

The text the Church proposes today is like a synthesis of the reality of God and the human being.  Jesus came to save us by forgiving our sins by the love that God has for us.  It also tells us that God gave His only son for our salvation.   Our world, so self sufficient, possibly do not understand these words.  Some might think, probably that he does not need salvation, that he is the only main character in his history and his hope.   But we all know this is not so.  

Humans need God’s help to be real humans.  Humans need His word, His life to be truly happy.  Even when today’s world blinds and dazzles me with its’ proposal explosions, only the light of God will give me an explanation to the unworthiness of my human reality.  The proposal that God offers us is the one based on love.

Many Christians are established in the permanent condemnation of themselves and the condemnation of others. They are “prophets of calamities”. Their announcement of the Gospel is not an invitation to discover the love that God has for us, but rather an invitation that we love God.  We love, who loves us.

If you do not announce to me the love that God has for me, it is very difficult for me to spontaneously love God.  All announcements and evangelization  acts have to always begin with a question ¿Do you know who really loves you?  All pedagogical conversion is to simply dig in the reality that God loves you and your personal answer to that love.  LOVE PAYS WITH LOVE.

Jesus opens the doors of the love of God to the whole humanity.  He does not condemn anyone. He only tries to heal people’s hurts from sin and life.  Each time I have the impression that life is like a huge boat where humanity sails, where each one of us have to fill in the holes where suffering and despair come thru.  

We all sail thru the same eternal sea. Together we go in the same ship of life. To be a Christian is to be sure that God also sails with us, He does not leave us alone or unprotected.    

That the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit allow us the necessary graces to live our Christian lives in constant touch with the divine.  Receiving undeserving graces.   To  be able to live dwelled in Trinitary graces.

AMEN!!