EXODUS 34: 4-6, 8-9
PSALM: Dan 3: 52-56
2 CORINTHIANS 13: 11-13
JOHN 3: 16-18

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Today we celebrate the “Feast of God.”
The Most Holy Trinity is one of the central belief our Catholic faith.
We profess our faith in this mystery every Sunday as we say the creed.
We profess our faith in this mystery every time we make the sign of the cross.

Our readings today talk to us about this amazing mystery: That our God is a communion of three divine persons in love — the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

In our second reading St Paul in his blessing put the Son before the Father and the Holy Spirit. In a way this reminds us that our faith on the Holy Trinity is a revelation that comes from Christ himself.

Important passages from the Gospel in which Jesus proclaims are:
“The Father and I are One.”
“To see me is to see the Father.”
“The Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything…”

The important understanding is that God is love which is revealed in the relations between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in Holy Trinity. And the fruit of this love is life itself, life in being one with God, the Holy Trinity.

It is because God is love that God created all life.
It is because God is love that God gave of himself to us in the Son who came to live among us to save us and give us new life.
It is because of God is love that God gave of himself to us in the Holy Spirit that we may share in this new life.

Our response hopefully is to be open to the love of God that we may be open to receive the Holy Spirit and life with God.

As the Trinity are one, we are invited to be one in Trinity through God’s love for us that we may love God and our neighbour. It is our openness to the mystery of God’s love in our lives that we can come to understand in turn the deeper mystery of the Trinity.

Each time we make the sign of the cross, may it express our deepest faith in the Holy Trinity and our deepest desire to share in the love that comes in being in communion with the Holy Trinity.