The Easter season has ended and we are back
into Ordinary Time. [As an aside,
Ordinary Time does not mean it is ordinary, but that it is numbered, as in
ordinal numbers. There is an ordinal
number associated with each week.] Technically
I think we are in the eighth week of Ordinary Time, but the week after
Pentecost is fixed for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The Gospel reading is quite short. It’s the first mentioning of the Trinity in
scripture.
The
eleven disciples went to Galilee,
to
the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.
When
they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.
Then
Jesus approached and said to them,
"All
power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go,
therefore, and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing
them in the name of the Father,
and
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching
them to observe all that I have commanded you.
And
behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."
~Mt 28:16-20
This is the homily I
think most priests fear, trying to explain the Trinity. It has been aid that if a priest speaks for
more than ten minutes on the Trinity, he will slip unknowingly into heresy. After scanning a dozen homilies and explanations
of the Trinity, I’m not sure which one I should embed. Let’s go with Bishop Barron.
Confused? Perhaps Jeff Cavins makes it cleaner.
How about a
third. This is even simpler, from John
Michael Talbot.
Sunday Meditation: “In the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
Let’s not worried about understanding the
Trinity. Let’s just embrace Him.
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