19/06/2011 - TRINITY SUNDAY - Year A
1Reading EX 34,4-6.8-9 Psalm Dan 3 2Reading 2Cor 13,11-13 Gospel Jn 3,16-18
The apostle Paul, blessing the community in Corinth, call upon them "the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ" together with "the love of God and the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit". Hence he make us see his understanding of the mystery
of the divine life, a mystery of love and communion. Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
is, one can say, the name of that God who was revealed to us by Jesus and made to
love. In many ways and in several occassions, as witnessed by the Gospels, he spoke
to us of the Father and of the Spirit, and taught us about the perfect and holy
unity he was living with these other two "persons". To express with one
word this communion of love and live, the word "Trinity" was built up.
It sounds a cold word, which would want to speak about the richness of God, but
does not express the beauty of the loving relationships that exist between the three
divine persons. This word does not help the one to use it as to show the relation
of love one has with each of the three persons. Because of this I prefer always
to speak about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit! Jesus himself, and his apostle like
him, have always expressed themeselves with these names that call one's relationship
with the other two. St. Paul gave us the example in the blessing of today's Reading
that is proclaimed to us.
The love of God the Father is that love of which Jesus spoke about with Nicodemus
at night. "God so loved the world": this is God's love. The world is the
space in which hatred, doubts, and enimity towards God and whatever he says and
does, grows. God does not reject such a world, but loves it, he wants to purify
it and free it from its own enimity. He shows such a love through his Son, who offers
himself so that the world can be saved. If the world is lost, condemned, its because
its enimity is worth to be condemned. Those who separate themselves from the world
to believe in the Son the Father has send are saved, and become capable to receive
and carry out the divine love, and become bearers of the Holy Spirit.
This is how shows himself to us, and we can say that we have come to know God. When
we say we know him it does not mean we know something of him, but because we enjoy
his salvation, we enjoy the beauty and his gracious love. Our friendship with Jesus
and our obedience to the inspirations of the Spirit are lights that help us participate
in the divine life. We dont know God outwardly, but from the depth of one's heart,
where we can enjoy intimacy. Moses would not imagine a nearness towards God, for
he didn't even had the guts to ask him: "If I have found grace in your sight,
Lord, may the Lord walks amongst us": not only the Lord walks amongst us, even
so he carries us with himand in his hear. And this thanks to Jesus, the Son whom
we love.
The reciprocal love between the Father and the Son, in which we find ourselves immersed,
when we love Jesus, is the Spirit who enriches us by the gifts of a life in God,
mercy and compassion for all above all. Moses, though not knowing it, enjoyed this
richness when he asked God to forgive the people who made him suffer because of
their disobedience and unfaithfulness.
We start to live after we are baptized in the name of the Father, of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit: we are always immersed in the fulness of the love of God. Because
of this, the apostle Paul can exhort us to be always rejoicing, and to be, with
joy, committed towards a life of communion, where the other is not a stranger, but
is part of the divine life that incorporates all of our brethren in the faith and
all men. If Gos was not "Trinity", we would have been justified in our
search of that isolation which our egoism wants to lead us to; if God was not Trinity,
the inclination to rule over others would have been legitimate. Instead, given the
fact that God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and we baptized in this name, we believe
that the perfection of our life grows in the communion with all other men, a communion
which is lived in its diverse stages, but always true and always a carier of the
love that makes ones capable of serving. It is in serving others that joy is always
present!
Let us praise and bless the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit! His love for is
is forever! Life Eternal is a life with him!