Trinity Sunday

Today we celebrate the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Three persons, One God. The father is not the Son or the Holy Spirit, The Son is not the Father or the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is not the Father or the Son. Three individual persons and still the same God. It is hard to grasp that is why we call it a Divine Mystery. We should not try to grasp it with our minds but with our hearts. We are called into unity with the Most Holy Trinity through Jesus Christ. "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you  do nothing”. Just as Jesus does his works through his unity with the Trinity, so we can share in that Divine Unity through Christ himself.

The first reading tells us how the Spirit of God created everything in the beginning. He controls the chaos and brings order into existence. Nothing is too big for our God to bring in control, even not the chaos in our world. God created a perfect world but mankind ruined it. Nevertheless God never abandons us and goes with us through history. “I am who I am”. God is the essence of life itself and he could not abandon us even he would want to. He might let us for a moment because we step back from him, but if we return to Him he will always return to us. Without Him we simply cannot exist. The Holy Trinity is a relational God. They are not just two males and a dove. NO! They are a perfect unity in communion with each other. The Holy Trinity does not practice social distancing or the 6 feet rule towards each other and neither to us. They are knit together and with us from the beginning. As they are in relation with each other so they want to be in relation with us. The trinity is all about relations and communion. As they are in communion with each other so should we be in communion with the trinity…and with each other. There is only one human race and we are supposed to be all brothers and sisters….equal to each other. No one is more important then the other.

This communion within God’s own self gives us a glimpse into the very heart of God – and, knowing that a deeper communion describes very well the universe in which we live, speaks to the longings in our own hearts as we are separated from others. We find that the first Christians were less concerned about doctrinal formulation than in following the way of Jesus. They patterned their daily lives in prayer and fasting, in service to others, and gathering for worship. Into that community, they baptized new followers using that same Trinitarian formula. In time, they came to think through what it meant to speak of a God who is both one and three. The analogies used to describe what we mean fall short. Saint Patrick’s three petals forming a single shamrock. John Wesley’s example of three candles in a room, yet one light by which to read. We could speak of other analogies for the Trinity, like Father, Mother and child yet one family. Another analogy lies in our human existence. As we are created in the image and likeness of God, we can speak of human beings as a kind of trinity: Body (the Son), mind (the Father) and soul (the Holy Spirit). The Spirit of God resides in us and so we should seek unity with the Triune God. At the end the Trinity remains a mystery, a mystery of Love. Just like love among humans or even humans and pets. We know so much about those we love most of the time, but at other moments we don’t. We can know a lot about God but he still is in many ways incomprehensible for us. A mystery that is deeper than our minds can grasp.

Humans have a deep need of other people. We cannot just stay alone and come together to procreate like some animals. We learned this during this pandemic. We need communion with others, even if we feel not for it very much. Being separated by the coronavirus has not broken that sense of communion. We found other ways to stay connect how imperfect they may seem. Our news ways of connection comes from that deep longing which is the heart of the Holy Trinity. Loving other people more helps us to see them as God sees them. Loving people helps us to draw us closer to God. That is the communion we were called to. We are not called to cause division…that is the territority of Gods enemy. He wants to divide and to destroy. God wants to unite and to heal. The love we are created to show gives us the opportunity to unite and reach out to those that need us. Not to earn the favor of God but because we want to. Connection with others makes us more connected to God. Early Christians put the practices of faith ahead of trying to figure everything out and put it in dogma’s and doctrines.
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That is what through the ages went wrong with Christianity. We need to go back to the basic, hold on to the practices of Early Christians. We can also prioritize our practices of faith, instead of being too dogmatic and legalistic. Nothing what we do relies on us alone but on the grace of God. He will work through the imperfect words and actions from us and others to connect us deeper to each other and to God. Let us ask the Most Holy Trinity to guide us on our way to Oneness with each other and with the ONE TRUE GOD! Amen.