10th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel Thoughts 2020
Sunday 14th June
THE MOST HOLY TRIRITY SOLEMNITY
Gospel Reading – John 3:16-18
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
The Gospel of the Lord
The Mass intention is for Clifford Stanislaus RIP
Reflection
Where is God to be found? God is to be found deep within our soul,
Because the key that unlocks God is not an explanation. Explanations are really, really not worth very much. Everybody knows when you try to explain theology, you get lost in all kinds of intellectual this and that and the other things.
The great mystery of The Holy Trinity is that God dwells in inaccessible light. God is Father… Here are the clues, now: God is Father, God is Son, and God is Holy Spirit. Our Father cares, Our Father cares as God cares, and Our Father cares as the Spirit cares for all that He has created.
Jesus is one who is one with us in every way, becomes man, lays down his life for us, that we might understand who God is, what He does. And when we see Jesus walking through Galilee and through the different places and preaching and teaching, we see the icon of God. We see the reality that God is among us in this very special way, for the Son of God has become man.
And, of course, Jesus is always talking about when he returns to the Father, he will be sure to send the Holy Spirit upon us. And the Spirit will make us understand deeply and understand very well who God is and who the Father is and who the Son is and who the Holy Spirit is.
It’s a relationship with a Father who loves us, created us, wants us always to be happy and wants, even more, to be loved in return. And this is the great loveliness of understanding, when you think of God not as something to be explained but as a relationship that you enter into.
And you say, “Yes, yes. Jesus, teach me about the Father and let me experience His great love.”
So today is really not a mystery. God reveals Himself. The mystery is something that will be revealed and open and clear and plain for the whole world to see. And it is. Every time we make the sing of the cross and bless ourselves, saying, “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
When we bring children to the waters of baptism and make them one with the love of God, we say, “I baptise you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
Everything we do is a Trinitarian expression that the Father is with us, the Son is one with us and makes us his own sister or brother, and the Holy Spirit fills our lives with courage and everything we need in order to understand, to know each other, to love each other, to care for each other, to forgive each other.
For we are the mystery that is given to us so that we ourselves can understand that to know one is to love one, to love one is to know them better, to know them better is to love them better.
The Trinity is an action. It is a life. And the life is based on the revelation of Jesus of the Father: “Love one another as I have loved you.” And then you will understand the mystery begins to unfold.
But it is not a matter of the head. The real problem is you must turn your heart and walk deeply into the great mystery of God Himself. The God who loved you before you were formed in your Mothers womb!
• In love for me, God desires my salvation, my being made whole. How does this look for you?
Fr John