HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY

HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY. 

Good morning everyone, welcome to celebrate today's Holy Mass. Today we celebrate 'Holy Trinity Sunday'. 

I am happy to welcome all our new people today. Once I called the new people, fresh meat and a parishioner said, "Oh father, do you think that we are left overs". Whatever church you go, you will see that one parishioner sitting in the pew...I am not talking about …........... 

Once after Mass, a little child pointing out me to her grandma said, "It's Jesus, It's Jesus". I was so shocked and inspired by the Holy Spirit said to her grandma, "Please tell your grandchild, I am not the Son but the father". 

Once a bishop as he was doing the confirmation Mass celebration asked one of the children, 'What is Holy Trinity?". He said, "It's faith in one God. The father is God and the son is God and the Holy Spirit is God, but they are not three gods but only one God". The bishop who was hard of hearing said, "I don't understand what you are saying". Then a man who was standing beside the bishop said, "Bishop, you suppose not to understand. It's a mystery".  

Today the Holy Catholic Church celebrates the feasts of 'Holy Trinity'. It's an ineffable mystery which can only be experienced but not to be explained. This mystery can be experienced only by those who completely put their trust in God and surrender themselves to Him. 

We are called to believe in the Triune God and experience the mystery of the Holy Trinity knowing that the father is God and the son is God and the Holy Spirit is god but there are not three gods but only one God. 

The Father is God and in the Old Testament, we see how God the Father, the creator God, does miracles and wonders and how to talks and communicate with His creatures. For example, God calls Adam as he was hiding from Him after disobeying the loving God. He calls Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses and so on. Though we see the wonders of God the Father, we also come to know the coming of the Messiah and the presence of the Holy Spirit. 

The Son Jesus Christ is God and in the New Testament, we see how Christ the only Son of God announces the coming of the kingdom of God and even before began His public ministry as He was being baptized, the heavens opened, and the Holy spirit descended on Him like a dove and the voice from heaven said, "this is my son, my beloved with whom I am well pleased" 

The Holy Spirit the third person in Trinity is God the sanctifying God and in the Acts of the Apostles and all the epistles and once school children were asked about what the epistles and they said, "Epistles are wives of the apostles", talked about the sanctifying presence of the Holy Spirit. 

Conclusion: Yes, the Father God is the Creator God and the Son Jesus Christ is the redeeming God and the Holy Spirit is the sanctifying god. They are not three gods but only one God. Holy Trinity is a mystery, it's an ineffable mystery.  

Trinity prayer of Leo Tolstoy: Leo Tolstoy once said, "everyone wants to change the world, and nobody wants to change himself". His famous story is trinity prayer. Once there lived three monks in an island and they were far away from other people and then one day, the bishop from that region visited them. Upon visiting them, he found out that they didn't even know the Our Father prayer. So, he stayed with them for a while teaching them the prayer. Then one day, he said 'Good bye' to them and he left with his boat. When his boat was back in the open sea, he saw the three monks walk on the water and they were almost running towards the bishop. The bishop looked at them amazed and then they said, "Please bishop teach us the prayer again and we forgot the prayer". The bishop said, "what prayer were you praying so far?'. They said, 'There are three of us and there are three of you and please have mercy on us". The bishop said, "Go and continue to say the prayer".  

The Father is God and the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God and there are not three gods but only one God. 

When we bless ourselves with sign of the cross, we say in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We do not say, in the names of the Father. Christ our Lord asked His apostles to go everywhere to baptized them all in the name of the father not the name of the father.......... We believe in one God.  

Many saints and holy men and women explained this mystery using created things like St. Patrick with three-gloved shamrock leaf, St. Cyril with the Sun, its light and its heat and St. John Marie Vianney and so on. 

The age-old story of St. Augustine that says how this mystery cannot be explained. 

When we celebrate the Holy Trinity Sunday we hear the word, 'Perichoresis'...means rotating forward around. It's a community of persons who work in perfect harmony and we are called to live like them in harmony. As they are one, we are called to be one. We don't say, my father when we pray, we say our father and we don't say, in the hour of my death but we say in the hour of our death in the hail Mary. God sent His son Jesus through the Holy Spirit to save us as community of people. So, let us put our trust in him. 

Once a parishioner said that the trinitarian god is a lot like our parish priest. You don't see him though the week and you don't understand him on Sunday. God bless.