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PROVERBS 8:22-31
ROMANS 5:1-5
JOHN 16:12-15
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It is natural to admit the existence of God as soon as we open our
eyes. Yet we look and see nothing. We listen and hear nothing. We have
to be attuned to hear and see God. This calls for great openness and
sensitivity on our part. But the best thing a Christian can do is to
look at the Gospels. In other words, we have to look at how Jesus spoke
about this mystery of the Holy Trinity and lived it.
Jesus spoke about God as a merciful and forgiving Father. He spoke
about himself as the Son of the Father, who came to save us by dying
for us on the cross. And by seeking to do the will of the Father at all
times, he showed us how a child of God should live. The will of the
Father was that he should bring us the good news of salvation. But it
was the Holy Spirit who commissioned him for this work. He said: “The
Spirit of the Lord has been given to me. He sent me to bring good news
to the poor.”
We are dealing with a great mystery, yet anyone can grasp it in such a
way as to be able to pray about it and live out this mystery in our
daily life. We think of God as our Father, a Father who loves us
deeply. It is from him we come, and it is to him that our lives flow
like a river towards the sea. We think of Jesus, the Son of God, as our
brother who died that we might live. He leads us to the Father’s house.
We think of the Holy Spirit as the one who helps us to live like Jesus
and who binds us together as brothers and sisters in a community of
love. Like fish in the sea and birds in the air, this becomes the very
atmosphere in which a Christian prays and lives. Now, how do we live
out this mystery of the Holy Trinity in our daily lives? How do we show
our love for the Holy Trinity in a very practical way?
In our world of financial ups and downs, all of us, especially the
unemployed, sick and elderly, need special trust in the Father. Like
the birds of the air, we too are not always sure what the future has in
store for us. We too need to trust that our heavenly Father will
provide. In a world of selfishness and self-centeredness, we need to
follow the example of Jesus’ self-sacrificing love. In a world of
conflicting voices and ideas, we need the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
There are so many times when we honestly don’t know what is right.
There are also times when we do not know what is the best way to handle
a situation. It is during these times that we need to pause in prayer
and listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
We truly show our love and reverence for our heavenly Father when we
trust the Father in our hour of need. We love and honor Jesus when we
love as he loved, reaching out even to our enemies. We love and honor
the Holy Spirit when we listen to him, especially in prayer. Trusting
in the Father, following in the footsteps of his Son Jesus Christ and
listening to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, these are the ways of
bringing the Holy Trinity into the nitty-gritty of our lives. And after
all, this is what the Feast of the Holy Trinity is all about.
It is the celebration of the great mystery that God is our Father whom
we can trust; that Jesus Christ is our brother whom we can follow and,
that the Holy Spirit is our constant companion whom we can always turn
to for guidance.
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we pray
for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and for those who
need our prayers the most.
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