I love this story of a little child trying to explain The Blessed Trinity. She said, “God the Father is the one who hugs us, Jesus is the one who walks with us, and the Holy Spirit is the one who whispers courage into our hearts.” Not a bad theology for a child! This is because the Blessed Trinity is not a puzzle to solve but a relationship to enter.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us one of the most beautiful summaries of God’s heart: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son” (John 3:16). Note too that God did not send the Son to condemn the world, but to save it. The Blessed Trinity is not distant or cold. The Father creates us in love, the Son redeems us through the Cross, and the Holy Spirit stays with us to strengthen and guide us every day.
In the first reading from Exodus, Moses encounters a God who is “merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.” That is the deepest identity of God. Sometimes people imagine God as waiting to catch us failing. But Jesus reveals the opposite: God is always reaching toward us before we ever reach toward Him.
Saint Paul echoes this in the second reading: “Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.” The Blessed Trinity is a communion of love, and every Christian family is called to reflect that communion. A home where people forgive, listen, pray together, and begin again after arguments becomes a small icon of the Trinity. Even humour and shared meals can become holy moments!
And every Mass draws us directly into this divine communion. We always begin, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” and at the Eucharistic table, the love of the Trinity is poured out for us. Here, the Father feeds us with the Body of His Son through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Eucharist is not only a remembrance; it is participation in the very life of the Triune God.
Today, the solemnity of the Blessed Trinity reminds us that: we were created by love, saved by love, and destined to live forever in love.
Your Priest,
Father Charles Enyinnia
