Celebrating the Nature of God ~ A Reflection for Trinity Sunday 2012

The Most Holy Trinity

Deu 4:32-34, 39-40

Ps 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22 (12b)

Rom 8:14-17

Mt 28:16-20

This Sunday we celebrate our God in Three Persons: Father, Son and Spirit...  Many have tried to explain the nature of the Trinity but most of us have probably simply accepted the truth of this mystery through faith.

In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples to go out to teach all nations and baptize the people in the "name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit..."  In this way, Jesus shows us the "undivided unity" of these Three Persons.

We often view the Trinity as a family or a community of Three Persons, just as our own families can be looked upon as one entity with several members comprising it.  Similarly, our parish community.  But most importantly, we realize that our God in his Trinitarian form has entered not only into creation, but also into our lives.

We see in the first reading from Deuteronomy, Moses asks the people whether they have ever heard of a god taking a nation for himself and leading them to a promised land.  This is the same Lord who created man and woman and who even allowed the people to hear his voice speaking to them.  The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did!  And this God is our God also! .

In Paul's letter to the Romans, we learn that we are led by the Spirit of God.  We are God's adopted sons and daughters and thus, inheritors along with our Brother, Christ.  This should be a reason for celebration and a call to us to follow in the footsteps of Christ.

With joy the psalmist sings:  "May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you."  (Ps 33:22)
 

 ~ The Holy Trinity by Giaquinto Corrado - Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain