Jun 7 - Trinity Sunday

+ Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: One God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This celebration is entirely the result of God’s self-revelation! There is no way at all that mankind on its own could ever have imagined, constructed or invented such a God – He is entirely beyond our scope, and yet He is entirely and absolutely near, intimate, up close, direct, indwelling and personal! The infinity of his majesty, power and glory are found and proved in the minuteness, the tininess and the complete insusceptibility of his concreteness, his finiteness among us as demonstrated in creation, and in the sending of his own Son to be a part of our world, to be our model, and for our salvation! This is all very, very amazing – and yes, even awesome to the maximum.

And so we rejoice in the fact today that Jesus, the Son, has revealed his Father, as our Father! We rejoice that by his own merits of death on a cross and then resurrection from the dead to an entirely new and fullness of  experience of human life: the “ontological leap” that we all yearn for, was his; and now can be ours, by baptism and life in the Mystical Body of Christ: the Church. We rejoice that Son and Father have sent the Holy Spirit of Joy, of Love, of Truth and Life into the Church, into us, so that we can “light the world” with the Fire of Divine Grace and Sanctifying Presence.

It is at this point that I would like to take a short “theological off-ramp” tangent: and get a little more into the nature and composition of God as One, in Three Persons. In the past 40 years there has been a surprisingly clear insight into how God not only IS Three in One – but how God NEEDS TO BE Three in One – and how, unlike how many of us were taught decades ago that “The Trinity is A Mystery” so there is no need to go any further with that discussion: isn’t this a pretty shamrock – Trinity = Shamrock!

Well, not exactly, Sister Mary Tabernacle! The Trinity is quite basically and understandably a relationship of Persons, whose relating had no beginning and will have no end: the relationship simply IS, here, now, and every here, now – in our space/time world – that we can measure it in. A relationship involved TWO persons: You relate to Me, and I am drawn into relationship with YOU – but the “dynamic electric vibration” of the relating – as anyone who has ever even talked with anyone else, or have been in love with anyone, knows that “it’s almost like an independent “thirdness of persons” is present: this is real, and in the case of God we have God relating endlessly with the Son (his breath, his one utterance, his one gently moaning sigh) which generates the Spirit – who IS the LOVE vibrating endlessly between Father and Son. True relationship is always generative of something now outside of itself – which is its energetic manifestation of LOVE.

How we enter into the picture is twofold – God creates us, in his image and likeness – meaning with the gently whirring of this Divine Love Relationship sounding in our ears – we are made out of love when our parents conceive us – and that is all of us – all human beings who have ever existed, exist now or will exist on the planet – we are all created in the dynamic flow of Trinitarian love – expressing itself personally and individually in us.

Secondly, last Sunday was the Birthday of the Church – when this same Spirit – the Love, Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Joy, Compassion, Comfort and Forgiveness of God burst into the entire lives of those present in the upper room – the apostles and Mary, Mother of Jesus. The way to plug consciously, and knowingly, and willingly into this Divine Dance between Father and Son is now offered to the whole world, Jews and Greeks (the rest of the world) alike. The community of those reveling in the presence of the Dead/Risen/Ascended Lord and Friend – now filled with his Spirit – went out to invite others to be in a deep and special relationship with the Trinity – so that our ordinary daily lives could generate a spark of light, and truth and justice, and peace to those we interact with.

At NO OTHER TIME IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY are all who have access to the Spirit of God, and the Trinitarian Dance of God – and that is everyone – is called upon to fire up that Spirit by first periods of silence, periods of prayer, contemplative and/or other kinds, and then the willingness to peacefully yet forcefully make a difference as a global pandemic still rages across the globe and our country, as unemployment is still in “depression era” ranges, where racial injustice and an out of control policing contingency in many places, as life as we knew it is gone forever – IF SOMETHING NEWER AND BETTER IS TO GROW FROM THE ASHES OF OUR CONVERGING CATASTROPHES -  then we MUST IMPLORE the TRINITY to Dance in us, Dance with us, Dance for us, and Dance often times in spite of ourselves – our confused, weary and angry selves!   

Yes, God the Father, so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believe in him, who believes in his divinity and live their lives like they believe it, may not perish but may have eternal life – on high with God forever!

Glory and praise to God forever!

Divine Unity in Blessed Trinity! Amen!