The Holy Trinity

We might have thought that before God created the angels and before he created the people on this planet, He must have been alone out there somewhere.  But when God sent His Son to save us, we learned that God was never alone.  He was always a family, a sharing community of three – Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The three Persons in God are so united in love and submission to one another that the three act as one, always in perfect harmony.  That boundless love of God spills over into all His creation, so that God’s love for us, too, is unlimited.  God loves each one of us totally.  We divide our love and put limits on it, but God loves fully, completely, and endlessly.

So the mystery of the Holy Trinity tells us a lot about that tremendous thing we call “love.”  Real love, true love, lasting love – not any of its cheap substitutes.  God created us in the image of His own most excellent Trinity.  What does that mean? He created us not to be alone, selfish, lonely individuals, but to be persons in community, just as He is in the family of His Trinity.  He made us to give of our best to one another, as He gives.

Just as each person in the Holy Trinity is different yet living in perfect harmony, so are we different from one another, but created to live in loving harmony.  Just as there is a fully open communication of thought and love in the Trinity, so should it be with us, who are created in His image.

Have a blessed Holy Trinity Sunday.

Fr. Chester