May 26, 2024

Dear Parishioners,

Today we celebrate Trinity Sunday, a day on which we reflect on this most awesome of divine mysteries, on the glimpse given to us into God’s very Self. This great truth transcends the ability of our minds to fully comprehend, transcends the ability of human language to communicate. St. Pope John Paul II expresses this same sense of the overwhelming reality of the Blessed Trinity:

A great mystery, a mystery of love, an ineffable mystery, before which words must give way to the silence of wonder and worship. A divine mystery that challenges and involves us, because a share in the Trinitarian life was given to us through grace, through the redemptive Incarnation of the Word and the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Pope John Paul II, General audience, March 10, 1999)

Today, then, we stand in awe before the beauty, majesty, magnificence of our God. But for me, the flip side of the wonder that is the Trinity is the fact that this transcendent amazing God is love, that God the almighty and glorious cares about you and me.

Let that sink in a moment. God is infinite, God is greater than the entire cosmos in all its vastness. God is eternal, beyond all the bounds of time and place. Yet we matter to this great and holy Trinity. God is not only the fullness of intelligence and wisdom, God is not only the nth degree of power, God is not only the Supreme Being and the origin of all life, God is heart. At the core of the Trinity, the truth that we worship one God in three Divine Persons, is that this unity of Persons is a unity of the purest and fullest Love, a love that pours out of God for us and for all creation.

Yes, this revelation of the Trinity revels the identity, the nature, the inner life of our God. That divine nature is beyond us, yet how privileged we are to be given this gift of a glimpse into this deepest of all realities! The revelation does indeed wow us – and rightly so. But the revelation also assures us that God is for us. As St. Paul proclaimed to the Romans, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31).

So as we celebrate Trinity Sunday, I hope and pray we will all stand in silent wonder at Father-Son-Spirit. I pray that this day lifts our spirits as we contemplate the mystery. And I pray that as we contemplate that divine glory and goodness, we then are moved to reflect upon our own selves and the fact that we are created in the divine image, that our vocation is to love, and that God is with us and for us as Creator and Lover, as Savior and Friend.

May Jesus, Beloved Son, Second Person of the Trinity, the Word made flesh dwelling among us, may we always follow you with all our hearts. Holy Mary, God-Bearer (Theotokos – Greek: Θεοτόκος), whose faith in God’s love is our model, pray for us.

Father Craig