THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM
Jesus' mission is to reveal the glory of God to us---a Trinity of
persons--- God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit---and to unite us with God in a
community of love.
I read a story that
I want to share with you as I begin the reflection today! A priest was sitting
in a Chicago airport waiting for his plane. A man sat down beside him and began
to give his opinions on religion. He boasted: "I won't accept anything I
can't understand. Take this business of three Gods in one God, or whatever it
is. I can't buy that. Nobody can explain it to me, so I will not believe
it."
Pointing to the sun
streaming in the window, the priest asked: "Do you believe in the
sun?" "Why, of course," the doubter admitted.
"Alright," the priest
continued, "the rays you see coming through that window are from the sun,
90,000,000 miles from here. The heat we feel come from both the sun and from it
rays. The Holy Trinity is something like that. The sun is God the Father; the
sun sends out its rays, God the Son. Then from both the sun and its rays, from
the Father and the Son, proceeds or comes the Holy Spirit, the heat. Then
Father Dennis asked the man can you explain how that happens?" The doubter
quickly changed the subject.
Today we honor the
Holy Trinity, we are the first to admit that this is a mystery, something that
is true, but something we cannot understand or explain. We know it is true
because Jesus told us about the Trinity several times, especially in today's
Gospel. And why we Christians accept it,
why we believe it? God who is the possessor and the giver of all truth. As
Jesus told His disciples and holds true for us today it is the role of the Holy
Spirit to reveal what is true. It is our faith we trust and believe in. And
God's truth liberates us from doubts, illusions, and fears. Since God is the
source of all truth, then closer we draw to Him and listen to His word, the
more we grow in the knowledge of God and of His great love and wisdom for us.
Jesus reveals to all of us the great mystery
of our faith--- He said to the disciples, Go, therefore, and make disciples of
all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. The
triune nature of God and the inseparable union of the Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. Jesus' mission is to reveal the glory of God to us---a Trinity of
persons--- God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit---and to unite us with God in a
community of love. The ultimate end, the purpose of which God created us, is
the entry of God's creatures into perfect unity of the blessed Trinity.
And so, we honor
this day and everyday the blessed Trinity... In many ways the Trinity is like
the sun in the heavens. The sun is the source of physical good; the Trinity is
the source of God's life in us. The sun
gives energy and strength; the Trinity gives inner power and strength. The sun
gives light; the Trinity lights the mind and heart of people. The sun produces
heat; the Trinity pours forth spiritual heat---love for God and neighbor. The
sun heals sickness and disease; the Trinity heals our souls---sin. The sun
helps resist germs and infection; the Trinity drives off spiritual illness. The
sun cheers and brightens the world around us; the Trinity cheers the heart.