May 22, 2016 Trinity
Sunday 1st Reading: Proverbs 8:22-31 2nd
Reading: Romans 5:1-5 Gospel: John 16:12-15
Jesus said to his disciples, “I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now. When he, the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into the whole truth.
He has nothing to say of himself but he will speak of what he hears, and he will tell you of the things to come. He will take what is mine and make it known to you; in doing this, he will glorify me. All that the Father has is mine; because of this I have just told you, that the Spirit will take what is mine and make it known to you.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
Preachers attempt to explain the mystery of the Trinity by using the classical example of the shamrock leaf or the fairly recent business innovation of the three-in-one coffee, or the experience of St. Augustine while walking along the shore. These shed some light to the confusing doctrine of a three-in-one God, but at a certain point, something in the human intellect resists. Three persons retaining individuality becoming perfectly one is just beyond our human experience and therefore revolting to the mind. How can the mind understand that one plus one plus one equals one?
The mind is not totally helpless if it looks at the mystery of the Trinity in the context of love. According to Chiara Lubich of the Focolare movement, it is easier to understand why the perfectly one God is three if we understand that love cannot flourish in isolation from others. If one is alone, he has no one to love but himself. In the context of the Trinity, we have different persons loving each other. Now what happens if this love is raised to its highest level? Won’t we have perfectly one heart, one mind, and one soul? The reason why it is difficult for us to comprehend a three-person-in-one-God is that we have no experience on earth of perfect love.
The obvious implication is that the more we live in the love of the Lord, the more we grow in understanding of the mystery of the Trinity. To live in the love of the Lord means to cling to God and never allow tribulations to be separated from him. A person who lives in the love of the Lord cries out with St. Paul: Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword, separate us from the love of Christ? …neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 8:35-39). – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email:dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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