Praise the Holy Trinity, undivided unity, Holy God, Mighty God. Today we come to the greatest mystery of our faith. We might be thinking what is the big deal? Why does it matter that God is a Trinity? Why can’t He simply be one, like the Jews and Muslims believe? The reason is love and salvation. God reveals Himself as a family of God. There is a perfect Love in the family of God. Okay so what does this mean for us? It means everything.
I have a friend who grew up in a very dysfunctional family. His father simply lost the will to care about him and let him fend for himself. He had a friend who had a relatively good family and they sort of adopted him and that saved his life. He lived there, ate there, and, because of this, he had some stability in his life. This is why the Trinity is important because it is the perfect relationship that we are all looking for. Within it contains love, guidance, in fact, everlasting love. It is what we look for when we are looking for others to satisfy us. The Trinity contains the desires of man’s soul. It is what we strive for each day.
I don’t know about you but I have found it odd that there is no God the Father feast in the Church. There are feasts dedicated to Jesus and Mary, to the Holy Spirit, to Saints, to churches and even to the Chair of Peter but no God the Father day. I feel the reason is because all these feasts reflect and come from the fathering of God. Everything is made in the image of God and all good things have their source in God. So, in truth, even though the Father seems hidden, He is revealed and celebrated in all the feasts of the Church, just as a human father whose works are revealed in his children. Our relationship with God as a father is revealed in everything we do. How strongly we enter into this mystery of the Love of the Trinity is revealed in each action in our lives.
Do we know the one true God as a Father who will provide for us and care for us or are we more thinking that we are on our own? Do we think to spend time in the Trinitarian Love of God each day or are we more living outside of the Trinity? In the Bible it says to call no man on earth your father. Doesn’t this mean that we cannot call priests Father so and so or have days like Father’s Day? No, it means that we have to know that the source of Fatherhood is God. We cannot be a good father without a good guide and we have the perfection with God as source. Do not be a father on your own; be a father in the light of God as a father.
We need to live in the mystery, but how can we do that? Well, when we get up in the morning we could think, “How does God want to father me today? What things do I know are going to happen to me?” Ask God to be a father to you. Where are you going to need to be loved and sacrificed for today? What things are going to drain your energy, your life force? This is where we ask Jesus to be with us. Where are we going to need power, gifts, strength from on high? Ask and you shall receive, knock on the door of the Trinity and it will be open to you.