THE TRINITY IS A WAY OF LIFE.

MOST HOLY TRINITY. YEAR A.
May 18, 2008.
(First reading: Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9) (Daniel: 3:52-56)
(Second reading: 2 Corinthians 13:11-13) (Gospel reading: John 3:16-18)


THE TRINITY IS
A WAY OF LIFE.

The Trinity can be better understood as a way of life: the way God lives.

This is how God lives:
- God the Father lives as "a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity" (Ex. 34:6); God the Father demonstrates that he "so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him... might have eternal life" (John 3:16). That is the way the Father lives: He gives all that he is, all that he has for the well-being of humanity.

- God the Son, the fulness of life in freedom, takes on the life of a slave, of a man, so that by his obedience the world be redeemed. The Lord Jesus lives a life which fully reveals his Father by doing the works of his Father, that is, by forgiving his enemies, by doing good to those who do wrong to him, by blessing those who curse him, by freeing the prisoners, by healing the sick. Jesus lives a life of self-sacrificing love (the only true love) so that we may live.

- God the Holy Spirit lives in us now, incessantly encouraging us to do the works of the Father as Christ Jesus showed them to us, so that, by doing them, we may be united in the live of the Triune God.

The life of the Triune God is the model for all human life, life which allows us to be inserted in the Trinity, to be in God Himself.

Saint Paul tells us how we can live the life of the Trinity: "Brothers... mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in peace" (2 Corinthians 13:11).

A world where divisions and wars are the norm, is a world which rejects the life of the Holy Trinity.

Today our Triune God calls us into his life.