The Most Holy
Trinity Loves and Cares for Us
(Most Holy Trinity Sunday May 22,
2016)
Dear Sisters
and Brothers in Christ,
As we
celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday today, two questions
arise in our mind: one, who is the Most Holy Trinity? And two, what has the
Most Holy Trinity done for us?
We go to the
first question: who is the Most Holy Trinity”
The Most
Holy Trinity is the One God Who appears to us in the three divine Persons:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This very
important truth was taught us by Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Throughout His mission on earth, Christ
always told His listeners that God the Father sent Him to preach the message of
Divine Mercy, calling sinners to go back to God, to repent of their wrongs and
ask for the forgiveness of their sins.
Christ also introduced to believers the Holy Spirit Who comes from God
the Father and God the Son, and Who works for the unity of the Church and the
human family.
In the Old
Testament the three Divine Persons were present already at the first moment of
the creation. The Book of Genesis tells us that “a mighty wind swept over the waters”[1]
and that the Lord God made the universe and all things in heaven and on
earth just by saying a word. Bible scholars point out that “wind” is
the symbol of the Holy Spirit because Christ once told Nicodemus that “the wind blows where it wills, and you can
hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it
goes, so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”[2] The Gospel according to Saint John
teaches us that “the Word was with God
and was God” and that “all things came to be through Him.”[3] This
very Word of God “became flesh and made
His dwelling among us.”[4]
In the New
Testament the presence of the three Divine Persons becomes clearer. When Christ received the baptism by Saint
John the Baptist in the Jordan River the Holy Spirit hovered over Him and the
voice of God the Father recognized Christ as His Son: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”[5]
With regard
to what the three Divine Persons have done for us, we have evidences from the
Holy Bible to be convinced that the Most Holy Trinity loves and cares for us so
much in both the work of creation and the work of salvation.
We are
taught that God made us in His divine image.
The Book of Genesis tells us that before the creation of man God was
holding a meeting among the three Divine Persons and they came to a common and
final decision: “Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness.”[6]
When God the
Father sent His Son Jesus Christ into the world to save us from sin and death,
the Holy Spirit came to make the process of Christ becoming a human person
possible. The Archangel Gabriel assured
the Blessed Virgin Mother: “The Holy
Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow
you. Therefore the child will be born
will be called holy, the Son of God.”[7]
Christ our
Lord and Savior orders us be baptized in the Name of the Most Holy Trinity so
that we deserve being God’s children and also worthy of new life in eternal
union to God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Hoy Spirit.”[8]
Our prayer
of praise and glory and thanksgiving should, for the abovementioned reasons, be
offered to the Three Divine Persons of the Most Holy Trinity: “Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to
the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and will be for ever. Amen.”
[1]
Gn 1:2.
[2]
Jn 3:8.
[3]
Jn 1:1.3.
[4]
Jn 1:14.
[5]
Mk 1:9-11.
[6]
Gn 1:26.
[7]
Lk 1:35.
[8]
Mt 28:19.
Fr. Francis Nguyen, O.P.
