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12 giu 2022

12/06/2022 – Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - year C

12/06/2022 – Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - year C

Reading 1 Prv 8,22-31 Psalm 8 Reading 2 ROM 5,1-5 Gospel JN 16,12-15

Today’s readings begin with a hymn to God’s wisdom, a wisdom we can continue to look at and enjoy the fruit of. The whole creation is the embodiment of wisdom, a wisdom full of love for men. This wisdom is described as God’s advisor, as Someone who is next to Him “as his craftsman” who He lets Himself be inspired by to shape the creatures. In this way, well before Jesus' revelation, the people of Israel has come to know God not as a lonely being without any relationship, but as a person who in Himself can relate to another Person and so live the love: He can listen, love, be loved, give and receive trust and live humility. If men imitate such a God, society will be continuously transformed, because it is pervaded by love and humility. If God was not living in Himself this loving relationship, He would be looked at and understood by us as a solitary person, in a position to be a tyrant, a dictator. In front of Him we would be only fearful, and, by trying to imitate Him, we would become ourselves tyrants for one another. It is not difficult for us to find these behaviours in a society in which the most spread religion knows a lonely God without relationships.

The revelation of God’s trinitarian life, started quietly in the writings before Jesus, continues more clearly and explicitly with Him. He talks about the Father, He makes us see explicitly His unity with Him through a full and loving obedience, is promising us the presence and the help of the Father’s Spirit, which is also His.

By listening to Jesus who is talking about the Father we have the strong feeling we are in the midst of a family, where live mutual trust, mutual listening, obedient love, the will to be united in full harmony. This environment is so beautiful, we are attracted to live like this in our families, groups, communities. Living relationships seems tiresome to us, sometimes difficult, because we are full of selfishness, attached to our way of seeing things, to the will to prevail. This is why Jesus is advising us to be humble, a humility which is making us ask for and grant forgiveness, which is allowing us to think others superior to us, not because better than us, but because they are loved by the Father as we are. And so we can be part of the trinitarian love of God, Jesus promises us and gives us the Holy Spirit!

Living God’s life, how Jesus is advising us with His only commandment, that is “love one another”, becomes easy, because generates joy and fullness, serenity and peace. When we start experiencing joy, we discover it is the only possible way to live, promoted and prompted by the Holy Spirit.

This makes us holy, so is making us divine. We have almost fear and shame to use this word, but we should not be afraid of the truth. By welcoming the Holy Spirit in us we really become part of God’s love, which can operate through us. We come to be Jesus' glory, as He is the Father’s glory.

Saint Paul too is telling this clearly to us: “We boast in hope of the glory of God”! Patience becomes necessary for us, because sufferings caused by our sins and our brothers' keep coming. In fact, in us, as in Jesus, God’s glory is revealed in testing too. We have seen on the cross how God is different from how men think of Him, it is there that Jesus has shown us the fullness of the Father’s love, through His sacrifice He has given it to us. We too will show men God the Father’s love when we will be patient in everything while suffering. The Holy Spirit given us by Jesus is making us God’s glory, witnesses of a God who can be Father for all. Our Life, through patient love, becomes part of the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity!