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15 giu 2025

15/06/2025 - Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - Year C

15/06/2025 - Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - Year C

1st Reading PRV 8,22-31 PSALM 8 2nd Reading ROM 5,1-5 Gospel N 16,12-15

Today's readings begin with a hymn to the wisdom of God, a wisdom the fruit of which we can continue to contemplate and enjoy: all the creation is a manifestation of wisdom, a wisdom filled with love for mankind. This wisdom is described as God's advisor, Someone who stands before him “as his craftsman”, by whom he allows himself to be inspired to shape the creation. In this way, even before the revelation given us by Jesus, the people of Israel contemplated God, not as a solitary being devoid of relationships, but as a person who in himself can relate to another person, and thus give concrete existence to love: he can listen, give and receive trust and live humility, live not for himself, but to give and increase the joy of the other.

If people contemplate a God like this, and try to imitate him, their society is continually transformed, because love and humility are poured into it. If God did not live this relationship of love within himself, he would be looked at and understood by us as a loner, a dictator, capable even of being a tyrant. Before him we would only be afraid, and by trying to imitate him we would in turn become tyrants to one another. It is not difficult for us to find such behaviour in societies in which the most followed religion knows only a solitary God without relationships.

The revelation of God's Trinitarian life, which began timidly in the writings before Jesus, continues more clearly and explicitly with him. He speaks to us about the Father, he explicitly tells us about his unity with him through full and loving obedience, he promises us the presence in us and the assistance of the Father's Spirit, who is also his.

While listening to Jesus we have the distinct feeling that we are inside a family, where there is mutual trust, mutual listening, obedient love, and the will to be united in full harmony. This environment is so beautiful that we are drawn to live it in our families, groups, communities, in all interpersonal relationships.

It is tiring for us, sometimes difficult, because we are full of selfishness, attached to our own ways of thinking, to our desire to stand out. This is why Jesus exhorts us to be humble, the humility that makes us ask for and give forgiveness, that allows us to value others as superior to ourselves, not because they are better than us, but because they are loved by the Father in the same way he loves us. And so that we can enter into the Trinitarian love of God, Jesus promises and gives the Holy Spirit. This makes us holy, that is, it makes us divine.

We are almost afraid and feel shy to use this word, but we must not be afraid of the truth. By receiving the Holy Spirit within us, we truly become part of the life, that is, of God's love, which can thus manifest itself through us. We come to be the glory of Jesus, as he is the glory of the Father.

St Paul also tells us this, and very clearly: “We boast in hope of the glory of God”.

Patience becomes necessary for us, because we are not spared the tribulations caused by our sins and those of our brothers and sisters. For in us, as in Jesus, God's glory is revealed when we are put to the test. On the cross, we saw that God is different from what man might think; it is there that Jesus has shown us the fullness of the Father's love, and, through his sacrifice, he also has given it to us.

We too will show the love of God the Father for mankind when we are patient in everything we suffer. The Holy Spirit given to us by Jesus makes us the glory of God, the revelation of a Lord who is able to be Father to all. Our lives, through patient love, become part of the mystery of the Holy Trinity!