30/05/2021
Today, full of joy, we celebrate our patronal feast, the solemnity of the Holy Trinity, the central mystery of our faith, which illuminates with its splendour and fills our lives as Christians. We have been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. The same invocation we pronounce at the beginning of most Christian celebrations. The Trinity speaks to us of the Being of God, which is only One. One in essence and Triune in persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The mystery of the Trinity cannot be understood precisely because it is a mystery. Saint Joan of Arc affirmed that “God is so great that He surpasses our science”, therefore, He surpasses human understanding. Saint Patrick, compared the Holy Trinity to a cloverleaf. He said that each leaf is different, but the three forms the clover, and the same happens with God where each person is God and they form the Holy Trinity. The anecdote of Saint Augustine is also well known: he was trying to understand the mystery of the Holy Trinity and he found a child who was trying to put all the seawater in a hole. Wanting to dissuade him, the boy told him that God does not fit into his finite mind either. We will have the understanding of this mystery only when we see God face to face; that is, in Heaven.
If God is three in one, men are women are also called to be one in God. Only by looking at the charm of the Trinity, can we reach that path that leads us to happiness, unity, harmony, peace and to a personal and communal encounter with God. God invites us to get away from dispersion or from that lonely being that, many times, we prefer. On this day that we celebrate our patronal feast, let us ask God that as a parish community we know how to work as a team and with the union of feelings, each one playing the role that corresponds to us as members of the church and committed to the structural change of our society. We will never get to know everything about this Mystery. What we can be sure of is one thing: to enter the Trinity is to enter into the intimacy of God himself. Is there anything better? As if that were not enough, God gives himself to us three times (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) so that, far from feeling alone, we can enjoy this mysterious but real presence. God bless you and happy Patronal feast!
