The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Homily)
May 30, 2021 11:30 am · Sergio Muñoz Fita
Today, seven days after Pentecost, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. This celebration is always a source of hope for us who are still on pilgrimage along the paths of this life on our journey toward communion with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The icon that presides over this celebration reminds us of this Mystery: the three Divine Persons invite us to participate in the banquet in which Christ himself is the meal. We are called to sit at the table of the Eucharist and receive in Holy Communion the sanctifying grace that unites us already now to the very life of God.
In today's Gospel, the Lord asks his Apostles to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Baptism incorporates us into the Church, which preserves faith in the Trinity and gives us access to the very intimacy of God. Jesus also alludes to this when he says, "I am with you always, until the end of the age.” In the Lord, the inaccessible and invisible Mystery has manifested itself in the weakness of our flesh. In Christ, we see God in a man. The incarnate Word, manifests to us all the love of the eternal Father because "he who has seen me has seen the Father". The Father and He are one, because they are united in the personal love that is the Holy Spirit. This Mystery, which is absolutely beyond our understanding, is not only an object of faith and hope, but through love we can truly participate in it.
The Lord is present in his Church in various ways. One of them, the most important, is the Eucharist. However, Jesus also told us: “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.” (Jn 14:23) The indwelling of the Holy Trinity is a marvelous mystery. Truly, through Baptism and our fidelity to God's gift, Christ is with the Father and the Holy Spirit in the souls of the just. Our hearts are the heaven in which God dwells. The person in grace is a living temple in which God is present as Father and Friend, filling with his light the most hidden recesses of the soul.
We are called to participate in this Mystery always. God, who is a community of persons, has created us to be part of this family. Man has been created in the image and likeness of this God who is not solitary, but is love, who loves and is loved. The Church must be the perpetuation in history of this mystery of immense love. Families must be places where, as in the mystery of God himself, diversity is the cause of unity and unity is never disturbed by diversity.
Today is a day to praise God for having created us and called us into communion of life with Him. Let us praise God who calls us to ascend to the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit. Let us renew our faith in the central mystery of revelation. Let us accept the invitation to enter into a living relationship with each of the divine Persons. May we relate to the Father as children in whom He finds His pleasure. May Jesus be our brother, our best friend and our greatest confidant. May the Holy Spirit help us to live by His presence in us through recollection and constant love. Let us learn from the saints to find in communion with God the cause of our joy.
At the conclusion of this month of May, we ask Mary to lead us to a loving union with the Father, of whom she was the best daughter; with her Son Jesus, of whom she was the first disciple of the Word made Man; and with the Holy Spirit, who filled her immaculate soul with grace and who in this Holy Mass once again makes present for us the body that was conceived in the Virgin's most pure womb.
