Dear Parish Family,

All the way from Holy Week to this Sunday’s “Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity” our Masses have been rich in moving images of our faith. Moving, deep, piercing, rewarding. But more, they have revealed how the Holy Trinity interacts with us! Our liturgies represent the ways people on earth could see that there is a Trinity within the one God! Our First Reading today tells us how the Hebrew people were the first to bear ancient testimony that “the Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.” God the Father is recognized as the creator and sustainer of the people and the people become his children. We can ask whether we hear in our faith the voice of the Father in our moments of crisis and fame.

Jesus in the garden asked the Father to release him from the cross. His whole life had been a testimony to the one he addressed with the endearing term, “Abba” (Daddy). Even though his life was sacrificed, he lived from a love that could not be killed. An earthly burial could not entrap God’s love. Jesus arose. He appeared to the disciples till his Ascension. 

Then he left this world. He was going back to the Father, the source of Jesus-love. To allay the disciples’ fears, he recounted with great kindness the course of his life, including especially the following important feature: his presence was to continue here on earth. The disciples were to go out and themselves be Jesus’ dwelling place of God on earth. Just as Jesus had foretold, the Spirit came alive within them, pitching its tent in their hearts and souls, coming closer to them and to us than we can be to our own selves! Our life’s breath is now to be Christ’s life and breathe for all ages. The Holy Spirit, which is now marked by the Father and Christ, comes to make us children of God, to be his presence in this world. The fledgling Church had discovered the Trinity not by studying theology books but by experiencing it. We begin our prayers invoking the name of the Holy Trinity. We need to develop a ‘God-consciousness’ as St. Paul recounts, “In Him we live, move and have our being.” This attitude will not only give us a sense of belonging, but more especially will deepen our love-relationship with God who alone can satisfy our inner longing for ‘eternity’ (everlasting love).

 Fr. Tom Kunnel C.O.