Solemnity of the Holy Trinity

Solemnity of the Holy Trinity

June 7, 2020

The Word is Jesus Christ, the eternal Word of the Father, through whom it has been revealed and spoken to us in the fullness of time, the Logos before all and embodied in the virginal bosom of Mary. In the Church every Sunday the Word is proclaimed in the celebration of the Eucharist as a light that illuminates the world and every human being. With the desire to make this Word closer, from the suggestion of our Archbishop Cardinal Juan de la Caridad, we begin this new section in Digital New Word. We intend to facilitate the reading in private or as a family of the readings of each Sunday or public holiday, which will lead us to personal or community prayer, to the contemplation of the mystery and to the incarnate and committed meditation of its contents, that is, to the encounter with Christ, the Word, which guides our steps on the path of life.

First Reading
Reading the book of Exodus 34, 4b-6. 8-9

In those days, Moses matured and climbed the sinai mountain, as the Lord had commanded him, carrying in his hand the two stone boards.
The Lord went down into the cloud and stayed with him there, and Moses pronounced the name of the Lord.
The Lord passed before him proclaiming:
“Lord, Lord, compassionate and merciful God, slow to anger and rich in mercy and loyalty”.
Moses at the time bowed and prostred himself to the ground. And he said:
“If I have obtained thy favor, may my Lord go with us, though it is a people of hard cervix; forgive our guilt and sins and take us as your inheritance.”
Psalm
Dn 3, 52-56 R/. To you glory and praise for the centuries.

Blessed art you, Lord, God of our fathers,
Blessed is your holy and glorious name. R/.

Blessed art thou in the temple of thy holy glory.
Blessed art thou upon the throne of thy kingdom. R/.

Blessed are you, who sit on cherubs
you probe the chasms. R/.

Blessed art thou in the vault of heaven. R/.

Second Reading
Reading the Apostle Paul’s second letter to Corinthians 13, 11-13

Brethren, rejoice, work for your perfection, be encouraged; have the same feeling and live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
Say hello to each other with the holy kiss.
All the saints greet you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit always be with all of you.

Gospel
Reading the Holy Gospel according to John 3, 16-18

God so loved the world, that He gave up his Only Begotten, that everyone who believes in him may not perish, but have eternal life.
For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but for the world to be saved by him.
He who believes in him will not be judged; He who does not believe is already judged, for he has not believed in the name of the Only Begotten of God.

Comment

Readings of the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity begin with a passage from exodus in which God asks Moses to go up mount Sinai with the tables of the law. And there, God wrapped him in the cloud, and then Moses proclaimed his mercy and asked him to forgive and accompany his people.

Instead of a psalm, today we hear a part of Daniel’s canticle with which we bless God, who sits on his heavenly throne, scrutinating the depths of the world and of the human being.

In the second letter to the Corinthians, St Paul tells us about a Trinitarian God who transmits his grace, his love and his communion to us.

And John announces in his Gospel that the Father has sent his Son to give his life for us and thus save those of us who believe in Him.

Perhaps we find it difficult to penetrate and understand the mystery of the Trinity that today’s liturgy invites us to celebrate. Really our rational and understanding capacity does not give for it. Such a pretence would be like trying to put all the sea water in a small hole hand-made in the sand of any of our beaches, as narrated by the famous anecdote of St. Augustine. But we can think of it, to glimpse the mystery, not as something dark but as light that dazzles and overwhelms us; it is certainly the founding truth of our Christian faith and that the difference between other monotheists, something Jesus Christ taught us forever, that God is Father, is Son and is holy Spirit, three different people, and one true God.

It is the identity and intimacy of God, his truth and his beauty. That is why it can only be seen with humility of heart. In God the Father we contemplate being in whom is the origin of all that is created, our own origin created in his image and likeness, and the end of history and the cosmos, and of the life of each of us. It is God who is omnipotent above all, of whom we come and to whom we walk, our origin and our goal. In Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, we contemplate God made man, Enmanuel, God with us, who became in everything like us, but without sin. In the Holy Spirit we contemplate the Lord and giver of life, who comes from the Father and the Son, the gift of his eternal love, God in us, a divine Spirit who with his gifts impels and enlightens us, guides our intelligence and strengthens our will.

We approach with fear and trepidation, like Moses on the mountain of Sinai, the essence of God, who is not just any god, invented or imagined, but the God who has come out of himself, his eternity to enter our history and become part of it, a personal God whose essence is summed up in the word Love, whose life is communion and who becomes a free gift to humanity. A God who does not come into the world to judge Him but to save Him, for which He asks us to believe in Him and love Him and love Us as He loves us.

Three things we could ask God One and Triune for today. Let us ask the Father to help us be his best children and live as such. Let us ask the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to be more and better brethren. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to come into our hearts and infuse us with the fire of his divine love.

And let us thank him for everything, for life, for creation, for the Church, for faith. everyone knows.

On this day the Pro Orantibus Day is celebrated. Let us thank him for the contemplative life in the Church and for all those who, feeling that vocation, have devoted their lives to prayer and contemplation.

Let us thank God, above all, because He has loved us first and thought of us to be living mirrors in which the world can contemplate Him. Only in Him is true and eternal life.

Prayer

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Father, I put myself in your hands, make me whatever you want, whatever it is, I thank you. I am willing to do everything, I accept everything as long as your will is fulfilled in me and in all your creatures. I don’t want anything else, Father. I entrust my soul to you, I give it to you, with all the love that I am capable of, because I love you and need to give you, to put myself in your hands without measure with infinite confidence because You are my Father. (Carlos de Foucauld)

Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.