+ 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!
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