The Most Holy Trinity

This weekend is Saturday the 6 and Sunday the 7 June, the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, beginning the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time.

The nuns of Mary, Queen of Apostles, sing Victoria’s setting of Duo Seraphim. Two Seraphim cried one to another, and said, “Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts, the whole world is full of your glory.” We celebrate today the feast of the Most Holy Trinity. 

It is a celebration of the unconditional love that God has for humanity, which God manifests as the creating love (which is God the Father), the saving love (which is God the Son), and the sanctifying love (which is God the Holy Spirit).  God therefore is love, and whoever lives in God lives in love and continues to manifest God’s love to other people.  The Trinity is a perfect example for us of how love enables us to open up our hearts to others in order to bring them closer to God and that they might have new life in God.  It is this love that we hear about in today’s reading from the Gospel of John.

John 3:16-18

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.    

God loves us so that we may have eternal life.  But this love is not forced unto us; it is freely given. 

Imagine this love of God being given to you now. Is there anything in my life that is stopping me from receiving this unconditional love of God?

As you listen to this reading again notice that these are the words of Jesus.  He is here not to condemn you but to invite you to accept God’s love so that you can have eternal life.

I speak to God now about this invitation.  I ask for the grace that I need to be able to recognise and accept this God who is the creating love, the saving love and the sanctifying love.  I also ask that I may be freed from all the things that block me from living in this love manifested in the Trinity today.      

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.  Amen.