Fr. Martin Ali keke Ndemsou, sx
HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY YEAR C
Talking about the Holy Trinity “God is one in substance and three in person” is always a big challenge. In fact, there is no passage in the Bible where we explicitly find the word Holy Trinity. Yet Jesus implicitly speaks about it when he says: “He (the Spirit of truth) will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you” (Jn 16: 14-15).
Then what is the Holy Trinity? According to the Catechism of Catholic Church, “The Holy trinity is the mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God” (CCC 237). Our prayer should be: Lord, keep revealing to us the mystery of the Holy Trinity. For, we are finite beings.
Where is the Holy Trinity? It is always with us and in us. Indeed, our prayers start and end with the sign of the cross by invoking the Holy Trinity when we say: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Moreover we are baptized in the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Trinity is perpetually in our lives.
Therefore, our lives should be Trinitarian that is shaped by the Holy Trinity. The mystery of the Holy Trinity teaches us communion and solidarity. In this sense, what saint John Paul II says, in his Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte, concerning the spirituality of communion is still relevant and practical: “A spirituality of communion indicates above all the heart’s contemplation of the mystery of the Trinity dwelling in us, and whose light we must also be able to see shining on the face of the brothers and sisters around us” (NMI, n°43).
HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY YEAR C
Talking about the Holy Trinity “God is one in substance and three in person” is always a big challenge. In fact, there is no passage in the Bible where we explicitly find the word Holy Trinity. Yet Jesus implicitly speaks about it when he says: “He (the Spirit of truth) will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you” (Jn 16: 14-15).
Then what is the Holy Trinity? According to the Catechism of Catholic Church, “The Holy trinity is the mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God” (CCC 237). Our prayer should be: Lord, keep revealing to us the mystery of the Holy Trinity. For, we are finite beings.
Where is the Holy Trinity? It is always with us and in us. Indeed, our prayers start and end with the sign of the cross by invoking the Holy Trinity when we say: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Moreover we are baptized in the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Trinity is perpetually in our lives.
Therefore, our lives should be Trinitarian that is shaped by the Holy Trinity. The mystery of the Holy Trinity teaches us communion and solidarity. In this sense, what saint John Paul II says, in his Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte, concerning the spirituality of communion is still relevant and practical: “A spirituality of communion indicates above all the heart’s contemplation of the mystery of the Trinity dwelling in us, and whose light we must also be able to see shining on the face of the brothers and sisters around us” (NMI, n°43).