+ Today (on this Feast of
the Most Holy Trinity) we recap and summarize the amazing events of the last
six months. We began in late November with the Season of Advent leading up to
remembrance of the great solemnity of the Incarnation of the Word of God, His
own Son, into our world, in order to save us from sure and certain doom and
destruction. We celebrated Christmas.
Shortly after that we entered
into the plaintive purple days of the
Lenten Season when we sharpened our spiritual awareness to better
understand the events of Holy Week in which the great act of reconciliation was
accomplished by the brutal death of this beloved Son of God, and Son of Man.
And then we began a fifty-day
celebration of the astounding reality of the rising of a Man-God to newness of
life, after having destroyed sin and opening the gates of heaven to all who
were waiting to enter then, or would enter now in the future. The Resurrection
of Jesus is the center of our faith and our justification, our life and our
hope!
At the end of fifty days
feasting, and when Jesus ascended into heaven, the Promised Gift of the Holy
Spirit arrived, sent by the Father and the Son – to ensure the real presence of
Jesus to all future generations until the end of time, and to preserve the
Truth of his original message summarized in the great Sermon on the Mount. The
Spirit came and now life in the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church he left
behind, is possible for all who want and need its sacramental aids and helps.
That’s
all there is to it: six months of detailing an incredible love story of God
with his people, that was set right again, by his own paternal intervention.
What
must be understood now is that the only way to fully enter into the life of God
is to live as he lives, to love as he loves, to give ourselves away as he
constantly gives himself away. God is a dynamic relationship
of persons within his own self (Father, Son, Spirit); we too must be in dynamic
loving relationships with one another, and the world in order to feel and
experience who God is, what he is about, and what our most valued contribution
to the whole picture is meant to be.
May the creating, redeeming,
sanctifying reality of God’s presence fill us today and move us daily to live
out our baptismal mission as worshippers, evangelists and helpers in building a
Kingdom of justice, love, peace and joy!
Amen.
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