REFLECTIONS – Trinity Sunday, Year B
What Divine Revelation tells us about God’s nature is reflected in our human nature, since we are created in God’s image. We are one person and within our one person we have a body, a mind and a soul. The One God is revealed in the Three Divine Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We know our body is distinct from our soul and mind and yet united to our soul and mind. We know our soul is distinct from our body and mind, and yet united to them. We know our mind is distinct from our body and soul, yet united to them. We accept the mystery of human nature and live a human life. In the one God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, while distinct are in-separately united, just as we are in body, mind and soul.
Most of the time, we are not puzzling about the nature of our mind, body and soul united in our one person. We simply accept that’s the way it is. The same is true in our faith in the Blessed Trinity and the nature of God as One God with three Divine Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We accept it as a revealed mystery of God Himself. It’s a wonderful mystery and we are called by God to live with God for all eternity.
The human nature and person are united with the divine nature and Divine Persons when we are baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as Jesus commissioned the Church to do. Our human nature and life is Trinitarian, and our life with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is Trinitarian. The mystery of the Blessed Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith. All the other Christian mysteries flow from this central mystery.
Humans gradually reveal themselves through their actions and words. The saving actions of God revealed God. It was only with the revelation of Jesus that the Trinitarian nature of God was revealed. Jesus not only revealed God the Father, He also revealed Himself as God’s unique eternal Son, and also the Third Person of the Holy Spirit.
Our one person carries out different works in the body with the mind and soul. Our one person carries out different works in the soul with the body and the mind. The Divine Persons of the One God carry out different works. The Father carries out the works of creation with the Son and the Spirit. The Son carries out the works of revelation and redemption with the Father and the Spirit, and the Spirit carries out the works of unifying and empowering with the Father and the Son. We profess these realities in our Creed.
The body needs the soul and mind to do its works. The mind needs the body and soul to do its works. The mind thinks it, the soul moves the body, and the body does it. While each Divine Person of the Blessed Trinity carries out a different work, they are united together.
God is a community of Divine Persons. The family is Trinitarian reflecting the creating work of the Father, the prayers and sacrifices of the Son and the unifying love of the Spirit. Our prayer and the Sacred Liturgy of the Church is Trinitarian. We pray to the Father, in the Spirit, through the Son. We profess our faith in the One God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Holy Trinity dwells in us. What dignity God gives to our human nature and persons. “This is why you must know, and fix in your heart, that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on the earth below, and that there is no other. You must keep His statutes and commandments…” To receive the revelation of the Holy Trinity is a special grace filled gift. “Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be His own.”
Paul teaches us the Spirit gives witness with our spirit that we are children of God. We are the adopted children of God in Christ. “Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, ‘Abba!’ that is Father.”
We can only marvel at the great mystery of the Blessed Trinity, and at our nature created in the likeness of God. Glory be to God!
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