Holy Trinity Sunday

 There is a saying that: "context is everything." This is appropriate for us today. The Holy Trinity is the context for all we say and do in the liturgy. This is voiced when the priest begins with the Sign of the Cross and concludes with the Final Blessing, both of which are made in the name of the "Father, Son and Holy Spirit." The Holy Trinity is the revelation of a God whose existence is accessible to natural reason but whose interior life is beyond our comprehension without His self-communication. Hence, it is only through our Lord Jesus Christ that this privileged knowledge of the nature, mission and life is possible. Jesus tells his disciples: "I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from the Father." (Jn 15: 15) What can we say about God on this special day? We know that God is light: "This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all." (1 Jn 1: 5) We know that God is love: "God is love and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them." (1 Jn 4: 17) God is personal: "You did not choose me but I chose you." (1 Jn 15: 16) We do not live in a lonely, meaningless and indifferent Universe. We live in the presence of a ground of Being whose amazing love is shown in his self-sacrifice on the cross for our salvation: "But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us." (Rm 5: 8) This means that we who are so fortunate to know and love this same God in our lives are therefore made ambassadors for that love to all those who are suffering: "So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." (2 Cor 5: 20-21)