SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY REFLECTION BY FATHER BENOIT MUKAMBA CSSp
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SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
SCRIPTURE: Matthew 28: 16-20; Romans 8: 14-17; Psalms 33; Deuteronomy 4 :32-34, 39-40.
REFLECTION: THE LORD IS GOD, NO OTHER.Fr. Benoit Mukamba, CSSp.
God has no other desire than to save his people. In God’s will to save us, he chose to make himself known to us so that we may know him, love him and serve him in return. John the Apostle expresses it so nicely, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” Perdition is a human choice and consequence of one’s own lack of faith in the only son of God. By sending his son into the world, the son became the manifestation of God’s love. The Son, Jesus, before ascending to the Father promised to remain present among the disciples until the end of ages and gave the Spirit to the Church so that they may bring the good news and make more disciples of Jesus in the world.
Last weekend we celebrated the manifestations of the Spirit in its gifts empowering the disciples for the mission. Today, we celebrate the full revelation of God in his three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. After celebrating Easter and Pentecost, the solemnity of the most holy Trinity brings us together to acknowledge and reaffirm our faith in the One God. The oneness of God is revealed in the Creator Father, in our Savior Jesus and in the sanctifying Spirit. In the days of Moses, the Creator God came to the help of the Israelites, embraced them and saved them from Pharaoh and all their enemies encountered on their journey to Cana. The Creator chose to be the savior of one nation. In Jesus Christ, we see God’s love and salvation for all peoples. The sanctifying Spirit seals our right of inheritance with God by giving us the power to live as children of God. The Epistle to the Romans reminds us that we received the Spirit of power making us adopted children of God and worthy of calling God, Abba, Father.
Moses exhorts Israel to abide by the only God who proved them his love by signs and wonders performed in Egypt and during their journey to the Promised Land. In Jesus, we see that compassion and mercy extended to the whole world. Through the Spirit’s works of healing, guidance, faith, hope and charity, we witness God’s compassion and mercy. Hence, we are to observe his commandments as a sign of our fidelity to God.
God’s compassion and mercy do not leave us indifferent but move us to respond to our fellow human beings with the same feelings and thoughts that are in Jesus Christ. “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us …” (1John 4:11-12). Love should define us in all our relationships, words and works. . The unity of the Holy Trinity invites us into oneness too with God and one another, as we all share the same Spirit of the Father and of the Son. We draw our relational nature from God who created us in his own image and likeness. We are by nature ‘beings-with’; we crave for relationship with fellow humans, with nature and above all with God. Our relatedness helps us to experience unity. Only a relationship of love can make unity happen because in love there is a constant giving and receiving without reservation. May God’s grace help us to receive his unconditional love and communicate it to others.