Today we celebrate Trinity Sunday. Our God is a Family, a Community. God is Relationship itself. God is Inter-relatedness, Intrinsic Inter-connectedness. God is not a static idea, but He is dynamic person/being, He is dynamism itself. In fact, He is a Trinity of Three Persons. This is what we are going to celebrate today in the mystery of Trinity: One God Three Persons. Every prayer starts and ends with the invocation of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to remind us that God is for us, not against us (Father), God is with us, Emmanuel (Christ), and God is within us, Antaryamin (Spirit).
When we say God is Trinity, we mean, “God is love.” Totally and absolutely love. Only love. There is no evil in God, no revengeful attitudes or anger, no pettiness of mind but only a large-heartedness that we call unconditional love, unfailing love. God does not love us because we are good; but God loves us because God is good, God is love itself.
Meister Eckhart, the fourteenth-century German Dominican mystic puts it wonderfully:
Do you want to know
what goes on in the core of the Trinity?
I will tell you.
In the core of the Trinity
the Father laughs
and gives birth to the Son.
The Son laughs back at the Father
and gives birth to the Spirit.
The whole Trinity laughs
and gives birth to us.
We therefore are called to love, love like God himself. We are the "Fourth Person" of the Trinity. We are called to create families and communities like God himself, based on love. Let us entrust ourselves to God, to love and to His loving designs. Love and forgiveness are the only ways to establish communities in the world. Because forgiveness is the love practised among imperfect people like us.
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