Pastor's Message

                 Trinity Sunday 

                                      “Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: to God who is, who was, and who is to come. Alleluia.”  (Gospel Acclamation)

            Last Sunday we celebrated the Solemnity of the Pentecost; fifty days of   celebration of Easter are over.  After Pentecost, the Church celebrates three more “Solemnities of Our Lord.” This Sunday we celebrate the Most Holy Trinity, next Sunday; “Corpus Christi,” and the Friday following, the Solemnity of “The Sacred Heart of Jesus.”

           These past days, we have lived and celebrated what God has done for us; “Our Salvation through Christ Jesus!” Today, we are encouraged to turn our gaze and focus on the being of God Himself. We are called to contemplate and celebrate the highest revelation in the being of God, the reality of the Triune God.

          In Our Catholic Catechism, we are taught, that, “There is only One True God, Eternal, Infinite, Unchangeable, Almighty and Incomprehensible; The Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Three Persons yet One God.” In the Creed we profess faith in One God, the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth; we profess faith in One Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and we profess faith in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; “A Oneness not of a Single Person, but in a Trinity of One Substance.”

          The Trinity! Three Distinct Persons united and equal in God, the Church teaches, is a Mystery, that is real and that no human mind or language is adequate to explain exhaustively.

          There is that Classic story told about St Augustine (one of the Greatest philosopher and theologian of our Church) who was strolling along the Seashore, struggling to comprehend the relationship between Persons of the Holy Trinity. As he strolled desiring to decipher the inner workings of this Mystery, he encountered a boy on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea; the Child had dug a small excavation, and with a bucket trekked back and forth, drawing the waters of the Sea and downing it into the excavation. St Augustine amused watched the boy for a while and after some time, he walked to the boy and asked him what he was trying to accomplish. The Lad looked straight to his face and replied that he wanted to empty all the Waters of the Sea into the excavation he had made. Augustine surprised, explained to the boy that what he was trying to accomplish was impossible. The boy without hesitation responded, it was equally impossible for you, to comprehend the Mystery of the Trinity.  And the child left.

          It was St. Augustine who would later affirm; “that if we thought that we had fully understood who God is, then He who we claimed to have understood is Not God!”

         While this insight of St Augustine is true, this does not mean that we know little about the Triune God! Human beings have much knowledge of God, not through a discovery of their own but through God’s Revelation of Himself to them. God reveals himself to us, through his Creation, then through Israel (Old Testament) and in the New Testament, revealed himself through his Son.

          The Holy Trinity is revealed magnificently, in the Baptism of Jesus; The Son was physically present among us, the Holy Spirit is seen descend upon him as a Dove and the Voice of the Father is heard; “This is My Beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” (Mt.3:17)

           In Baptism we are born into an intimacy with God; we are born of the Communion of the Trinity; A Communion of Love of the Father and of the Son in the Holy Spirit. As Disciples of Christ, we have been commissioned to share with others, this privilege. In the Gospel of Matthew, before Jesus ascended, He gave the Disciples the Final Command; “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (Mt. 28:19-20)