June 15, 2025 - The Most Holy Trinity

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

Today, we celebrate Trinity Sunday—a feast that does not center on a particular event in Jesus’ life, like Christmas or Easter, but rather on a mystery—the mystery of God’s own inner life. It is a day not just to explain the Trinity, but to wonder at it, to allow the reality of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to shape our faith, our relationships, and our sense of who God is.

      The first reading from Proverbs 8 gives us a poetic glimpse into the wisdom of God, present “at the beginning of his work,” playing before him and delighting in humanity. This “Wisdom” has often been seen as a foreshadowing of Christ, the Word through whom all things were made. From the very beginning, we see that God does not exist in solitude but in relationship. The doctrine of the Trinity tells us that God is love, not just because He loves His creation, but because within God’s own being, there is an eternal relationship of love—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is not a lonely monarch, but a communion of persons. This matters. Because if God is relationship, and we are made in God’s image, then we are made for relationship too—not just to exist, but to belong and love. 

In the Gospel from John 16, Jesus tells his disciples, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” And then He promises the Holy Spirit, who will lead them into all truth. Jesus is gently acknowledging, that understanding God is not a one-time lesson, but a lifelong journey. And the Trinity—this mystery of one God in three Persons—is not a math problem or a theological riddle, but the divine life into which we are invited. 

When we were baptized, it was in the name—not the names, but the one name—of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. That’s not just a formula. That’s a declaration: You now belong to the life of the Trinity. In Christ, through the Spirit, we are drawn into the life of the Father. We don’t just worship God from a distance—we are brought into the dance of divine love. 

In Romans 5, Paul writes, “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” Notice how all three Persons of the Trinity are active here: We are justified by faith in Jesus Christ, We have peace with God the Father, And we are filled with love by the Holy Spirit. The Trinity is not an abstract doctrine—it is how God comes to us. It is how we experience salvation. It is how we are called to live: Like the Father—giving and generating life, Like the Son—serving and revealing love, Like the Spirit—unifying and animating the Church. 

So let us not try to reduce the Trinity to a metaphor or a diagram. Let’s receive it as an invitation: to live lives of self-giving love, to be in communion with one another, and to reflect the God who is eternally love. Today, on Trinity Sunday, let us rejoice that God is greater than we can fully grasp, and yet closer than we dare to hope. We are held in the heart of a God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—one God, living and true, forever and ever.  

God bless everyone always!!!

Fr. Stan