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Fr. Shaji Joseph Pazhukkathara

Solemnity of Most Holy Trinity!

6/5/2020

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A popular story of St. Augustine walking along the beach one day, taking a break from writing his treatise on the Trinity.  The great scholar just couldn’t get his mind around this great mystery.  While he was walking on the beach, he saw a little boy digging a hole in the sand, and then running to the ocean, filling up his hands with the seawater, running back to the hole, and emptying the water into the hole. Augustine watched the boy running back and forth several times. Finally, he said to the boy, “What are you doing?”  The boy said, “Trying to fill that hole with the ocean.” And Augustine said, “You’ll never fit the ocean in that hole.”  And the boy said, “Neither will you be able to fit the Trinity into your mind.”

We are celebrating the Solemnity of Most Holy Trinity. How can we know God: Trinity? It is a mystery, but Jesus makes it easier for us. Jesus talks repeatedly about the relationship of Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Jesus says “Everything that the Father has is mine.” The Gospel of John, reading for the day says, “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.”

In the Gospel of Matthew Jesus says, (28:19) “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…” In the book of Genesis, we read (1:26), “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”

If we look at the creation story, (Genesis 1:3) God the Father said, “Let there be…” Through Word, God created everything. Genesis 1:2, we read “the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters.” The Gospel of John will tell us, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him…”

The mystery of trinity tells about true love and unity. A family is a simple form of community, it grows into church, school, different organizations and it grows into a wider community. We are invited to live in a community of love. Our families  become truly Christian when we live in a relationship of love with God and with others. We can call God ‘our Father’, Son Jesus ‘Immanuel’ and Holy Spirit ‘strength in our weakness.’
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Let me close with this beautiful prayer, “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.”
 
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