REFLECTION FOR TRINITY SUNDAY, YEAR A GOD IS A UNITY OF THREE PERSONS Today the mother Church celebrates the Blessed Trinity. Trinity specifically “denotes Christian doctrine that God is a unity of three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit”. It is a mystery. Mystery here means that “we can never say the final word about God, there is always more to discover, there is always more to share, and there is always more to experience”. That God is a unity of three persons underscores the communion that exists among the three persons in one God which is also expressed in the Eucharist-fellowship or communion. John Paul II writes: “the worship given to the Trinity: of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit permeates the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy”. John Paul II articulated the heart of the doctrine of Trinity in these words “our God in his intimate mystery is not solitude, but a family. For He intrinsically contains paternity, filiation, and the essence of the family that is love: that love is the divine family is the Holy Spirit”. The Church attributes this Trinitarian fellowship with the expression perichoresis. Perichoresis means the unity and mutual penetration which characterizes the inner life of the Trinity. Hence, in Jesus Christ, the invisible God is made visible, the unapproachable God is made approachable, and the eternal God took flesh and dwelt amongst us. The bond that unites the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit which is the love of the Father and the Son. In our liturgical life, Eucharistic communion underlines this unity and questions the sources of the divisions and discriminations which mark the human family. John Paul 11 in Ecclesia De Eucharistia, 24, opines that: the gift of Christ and his Spirit which we receive in the Eucharistic communion superabundantly fulfils the yearning for fraternal unity deeply rooted in the human heart; …the seeds of disunity, which daily experience shows to be deeply rooted in humanity as a result of sin, are countered by the unifying power of the body of Christ…Eucharist creates human community. There is a close link between this element of the Eucharist and its sacredness that is to say to be a holy and sacred action because in it are the continual presence of actions of Christ “the Holy One” of God; anointed with the Holy Spirit, consecrated by the Father; to lay down his life of his own accord and take it up again (Dominicae Cenae n. 8). MAY GOD BLESS AND SANCTIFY U
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:17:48 +0000
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