Sunday, 16 June 2019
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)
We will soon get back to the Ordinary Time – a season that opened last January 14 this year but was interrupted by the Lenten and the Easter Seasons. This longer part of the Ordinary time makes a big bang on June 16 today with the celebration of Trinity Sunday and will stretch until November 24 with the celebration of Christ the King. After that, a new calendar will open with the season of Advent.
The mystery of the Trinity presents one God in three persons. Preachers attempt to fathom this mystery using the classical explanation of the shamrock leaf or the three-in-one coffee, or the story of St. Augustine walking on the beach. These explanations help a lot but they can also water down the profoundness of the meaning of the Trinity if one solely relies on them. We must arrive at a point of self surrender and allow faith to sustain our intellect.
A three-in-one God is less repugnant to the mind if analyzed in the context of love. The late Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare movement, wrote that love couldn’t flourish if there is only one individual, for then he will have nobody to love. At this point it is easy to understand why there are three divine persons sharing the love. Our problem, however, is the concept of having only one God.
To explain this Lubich said that the nature of love knows no division. Where love is perfect, unity is perfected. 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 resulting in perfect unity. To deepen our understanding of the Trinity, it is necessary that we deepen our understanding of love in the laboratory of praxis.
The Feast of the Holy Trinity is an appropriate opening salvo for the longer part of the Ordinary Time. This feast reminds us that we have been baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and that the Ordinary Time is our best chance to show that truly our God is the God of love. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos
Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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