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27 mag 2018
27/05/2018   The Most Holy Trinity - B 

27/05/2018   The Most Holy Trinity - B 

Reading 1, Deuteronomy 4,32-34.39-40 * Psalm 32 * Reading 2, Romans * Gospel, Matthew 28,16-20

 

The Holy Spirit inspired the shepherds of the Church to proclaim a feast in order to give us the occasion to think of and enjoy that special knowledge of God that He Himself gives us. We live immersed in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit since our baptism, and every day we remind ourselves - in crossing ourselves and in all our prayers - the Three Persons: why do we need to dedicate a Sunday to this Mystery?

This yearly occasion to think about the life of our God is indeed justified! Many Christians are so superficial and absent-minded, to be ready to believe anything coming from random sources. As long as someone is telling them about "God", or about peace, or healing, or new things, they believe in everything, even if this means - in the end - to let themselves being dragged far from the actual and eternal truths of our Creed. It is almost like they are not even touched by a single doubt that they might be deceived. In fact, whenever is offered to us a God that is not Father, a God who is not Son, a God that is not Spirit of love eager to fill our heart, then we are about to be tricked. When our faith in God-Trinity is not steadfast any more, then our interior life is at risk, the foundation of the unity of our families is destroyed, and loses meaning the entire selfless effort towards a life of community, grown among many difficulties through the tireless and centuries-long work of the entire Christian people.

Believing in God the Father makes us able to love unconditionally, with freedom and proactivity, believing in God the Son makes us meek, peaceful and able to welcome the healthy and holy efforts of other brothers and of anyone else who is bringing peace; believing in the Holy Spirit makes us self-confident, confident in being able to carry out our God's works, makes us able to be in communion and gives us the courage to bring always into the world the love, no-matter-what. It is very important to have a clear knowledge of whom our God is, so then we also have knowledge of who we are, what our job in the world is, and of the meaning of our existence. Jesus, when he sent the apostles in the entire world, with clarity and resolution ordered them to baptism all nations "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"! What did he mean? We certainly are not able to express the entire deep meaning He was investing these words with, but at least we can understand this: no man has a perfect life if he is not immersed in the divine love, in the love and life of that God who is Father, is Son, and is Holy Spirit!

Jesus has been telling many times very clearly about these three Persons, about each one of them as an individual, and at the same time He has let understand that all three of them are so united to be a single God, one God, that God who His disciples must obey and who they can carry in their heart!

The apostles have not used the word Trinity, they did not need to. The need to be able to define with a single word our faith in the three Persons appeared later, at the raising of some heresy. However, they have been able to spread the faith in that Father who Jesus introduced to us with great clarity, who Jesus loved to the point to give up His life; the faith in that Spirit that Jesus had received from the Father in the Jordan and had given back on the cross; the faith in Jesus, Son of God, who gives life and salvation through the forgiveness of sins. We can find an example of this in the passage of the letter to the Romans we have heard today. The Holy Spirit makes us aware to be children of God, therefore to be able to be familiar with Him, without being scared of Him. It lets us call God by the name of Abba, Father! It lets us to have part in the sufferings and the glory of the Son, It makes us one thing, as to speak, with God Himself, sanctified, even more, made divine, absorbed in His life, a circle of love!

Let us make ours then the admiration of Moses’ for the God of his people, a God able to be caring and tender, to defend and to give trust to men! We admire our God even more than Moses! Therefore, let us welcome his conclusion as well, “Keep his laws and commandments”: the obedience to them is a source of life and peace, of joy and fullness, because they are commands coming from love, building love, bringing us to receive and give love!

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit! To God who is, has been, and will come again. Hallelujah!