The Most Holy Trinity
This weekend we celebrate the feast of the Trinity. It is a precept that confounds us. Having the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit together in one Godhead is a concept outside our experience of life. Our world is one in which we expect logic to prevail. I spend my day checking facts, researching details, then making decisions based on reason and knowledge so my logical brain can’t understand the idea of three persons in one. I know that trying to figure it out with reason will not give me an adequate explanation. It is a true mystery that can’t be understood in a worldly way. So how else can we approach the Trinity. We can instead look at the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as a mystery that we consider with our hearts and not our heads. We can contemplate and pray about the reality and presence of the Trinity in our lives for we know God created us and loves us, Jesus gave his life to save us, and the Holy Spirit encourages us. This describes a community of love and a way of living that we are invited to share in. To help us understand what that community can be we can take the words from today’s second reading, the second letter from Paul to the Corinthians. Paul gives us a simple lesson in living in community. “Brothers and sisters… try to grow perfect; help one another. Be united: live in peace” and our reward for these efforts will be that “the God of love and peace will be with you”.
The Trinity offers us a model of sharing, of belonging and of community. It asks us to be mindful of our responsibilities to those around, us in our families, our neighbourhood, and our wider community. So, on this feast of the Most Holy Trinity, we pray that we continue to grow as a loving, caring community.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Jane Kelly
Liturgy Committee Chair
