The Congregation for the Clergy on Trinity Sunday

The Holy Trinity is difficult to understand, but you can see it in action and above all you can live in it, since Jesus has opened the door to the kingdom of heaven. It is therefore necessary to enter "the cloud" through which God reveals himself to man, constituting him his inheritance (See Ex 34,5.9).

P>VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) - The historical existence of Jesus Christ, and especially, as we have seen in recent months, his Passion, Death and Resurrection, has been lived by him in a constant dialogue with the Father of Love. His mission, we might say, was to introduce his friends, the disciples of every age, to the knowledge of he who sent him, through the constant action of the Holy Spirit (Cfr. Collect).

If you do not start from this fact that is so evident in Scripture, as many assume, you can not understand the Holy Trinity, which, even before it becomes a dogma of faith, is certainly a mystery that must be introduced.

How can one know that which is impossible to define? Saint Augustine experienced this also. Immersed in the depths of his own meditations, on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea, he met a boy who was tenaciously trying to pour all the water of the great Mediterranean Sea into a small hole dug in the sand. Faced with the wonder of the great Saint, the boy said with a smile: "And you think you can understand how God is infinite with your mind that is so limited?".

But this, which might seem a defeat for human intelligence, is actually the beginning of a new kind of knowledge; how the most beautiful flower can grow on the solid base which is human reason, exalting it and bringing it to completion: This is faith!

In order to know the infinite ocean, in fact, the best thing is to let a strong push on  the solid boat of Peter, which is the Church. By the action of the Holy Spirit, like a mighty wind, it knows the route to follow.

The Holy Trinity is difficult to understand, but you can see it in action and above all you can live in it, since Jesus has opened the door to the kingdom of heaven. It is therefore necessary to enter "the cloud" through which God reveals himself to man, constituting him his inheritance (See Ex 34,5.9).

It is the incorporation into Christ which makes possible the action of the Spirit in us: we would not know what to say if we had not received in our "hearts the Spirit of his Son, crying Abba, Father" (See the Communion Antiphon) .

The Truth of God, that we understand this Sunday, is therefore not primarily a philosophical abstraction to possess, but a reality of infinite Love that we are let soak in and experience, as regenerated sons in the Son, constantly turning to the Heavenly Father who wants to give us "salvation" and "eternal life" (cf. Jn 3:16-17).

Let us therefore turn to the Eucharistic Bread, that soon we will receive in an "everlasting sacrifice" pleasing to the Lord (cf. Prayer over the offerings), in order that our lives may be conformed to that of Christ, and beginning to cultivate in us, "his own mind"(2 Cor 13:11).

Citations of
Es 34,4b-6.8-9:   www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/9ahx5obb.htm
2Co 13,11-13:  www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/9arajwm.htm
Gv 3,16-18:   www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/9ayxkgc.htm
www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/9a10alc.htm

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