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  THE SOLEMNITY OF HOLY TRINITY This Feast is really a very unusual feast in the church year, in the liturgical year. If you take the time to notice, you will realize that this feast is a feast where we celebrate a doctrine, a defined teaching of the church. Its the only feast in the whole church calendar where this happens and I think you can readily notice this or recall this. We celebrate the Feast of the Nativity, an event, the birth of Jesus. We celebrate the Annunciation, an event. We celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus, events in his life. Or many, many other times we celebrate our liturgies, its in honor of a person, a saint. All of our liturgical celebrations have either to do with an event or with a person whom we venerate or want to emulate. But today its a doctrine and that can be somewhat difficult, especially a doctrine like the Holy Trinity, a doctrine that is beyond our capacity to understand, a genuine mystery beyond our ability in any way to comprehend. ...

  WHAT DOES THE HOLY TRINITY HAVE TO SAY TO US?  The Trinity is a communio personarum, a communion of persons. In God, the problem of unity and diversity is overcome in a way man will never achieve: one  Godhead, yet three Persons. The Trinitarian relationship in Scripture reveals the nature of God to be both communal and social. Therefore, we who are made in the image of God also share this communal, social nature.  We can ask ourselves the following question: what does it mean to be made in the image of God and to share in this Trinitarian nature of relationship and community? What would it mean for us today to reflect the free flowing love modeled in the Triune God and revealed in Scripture?  The answer will be: It would mean finding ways to address the global crisis of poverty. It would mean seeking ways to end violence and work toward equality and justice. It would mean respecting the freedom and dignity of each person because they, too, are made in the ima...

  HOMILY FOR 26 MAY 2024 SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY YEAR B Deuteronomy 4: 32-34, 39-40;  Psalm 33: 4-5, 6, 8, 18-19, 20, 22; Romans 8: 14-17; Matthew 28: 16-20 UNDERSTANDING THE MYSTERY OF HOLY TRINITY I pray for you: May you continue to be drawn into the relationship of our God: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! AMEN Today we are celebrating the relationship among Godhead, and the relationship among Children of God. Our God is primarily a relationship. God relates within Godhead. God is similar to a healthy family of parents and child(ren). Each member interacts with each other. Although distinct, there is also a profound oneness that is indivisible. We are called and invited to participate in the life of the Triune God by being in relationship with the Relationship of the Three-in-One. In all the readings there is evidence of the Triune God in action. Our readings present to us a view of the Most Holy Trinity, whose solemnity we celebrate today. The First Reading fro...