St James Catholic Church

In our first reading today, Moses asks, “Did anything so great ever happen before?”  After celebrating Easter and then Pentecost, we may ask the same question.  Throughout the Easter season, which has just come to a close, we recalled how the Son made the ultimate sacrifice for us.  The Father raised him from the dead and the Holy Spirit was sent to be with us always.  As we celebrate the Holy Trinity today, we realize that nothing so great as all this has ever happened before.  And that those events of two thousand years ago continue to happen for us each day.

Because God is Father, Son, and Spirit, three persons in one God, God is by nature relational; also, each relationship among the three persons is unique.  For instance, the relationship between Jesus and the Father is different from the relationship between Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  When God created the world, God created human beings in His own image.  This means that we are also relational beings, with a unique relationship to each other, as well as a unique relationship with God.  We imitate God when we treat others with love and mercy, for God treats us with love and mercy.  But more than that we imitate the relationship of the three persons of the Trinity.

When we were baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we were bound with all three persons in God.  Called to live out that bond, we express it with the love that in turn binds us with others.  Bonded with those we love and with those who love us, we form an ever widening family rooted in the bonds of the Trinity.

Love, Peace, Joy,

Fr. Bob