Father, Son and Spirit
My Dear Friends,
I hope you are all staying well and looking forward to a nice Bank Holiday weekend, where you can meet up with family and friends and give thanks to God for all of the many blessings he has bestowed on us!
What a wet month Our Lady’s month of May has been! And Our Poor Clare Sisters could not have chosen a wetter month to walk to Walsingham! Haven’t the Sisters done well and I am sure those showers of rain they encountered on their journey were showers of blessings from above!
This weekend we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. This feast is not the time to try and explain how three goes into one! The Trinity is not something that we can understand and figure out with our reasoning, intellect or with our brain. We most certainly won’t find the explanation to the Trinity by ‘googling’ it!
The Trinity is a ‘mystery’ that we are to experience with our hearts and not with our heads. It is not a puzzle or a riddle that we are expected to answer or solve. When we use the word ‘mystery’ to talk about and describe the Trinity, we are talking about a reality that is so endlessly rich and profound that it will never be exhausted.
The more we contemplate and pray about the reality and presence of the Trinity in our lives, the more of its self will be revealed to us. Through the Trinity, God creates and loves us, Jesus liberates and saves us and the Spirit encourages and strengthens us. The Trinity is a community of love and life that we are invited to be part of and share in.
My friends, allow the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity to enfold you in its community of Love, Wisdom and Grace and through these gifts you will always honour the Triune Godhead Father, Son and Spirit.
Fr John