Holy Trinity 2021

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Who is God truly, what is he like? We might use some fancy words; God is infinite, omnipotent, omniscient. It all sounds impressive, doesn’t it but a bit distant? Here’s a different one, God’s will is love.

When you ask someone to describe someone else, beyond using adjectives, they tell stories. Their experiences describe who the person is. In life, we understand a person by experiencing a relationship with them. When it comes to the question, who is God, our answer is found in our relationship with Him; as humanity, as people, and as persons. We can look through our shared history, the scriptures, and the collective memories and traditions of the Christian community.

God has entered into the life of this world then into human history. He is the creator of the universe, and all creation has his fingerprints. Our history is of a savior who becomes man and shows us how to love and the Spirit who lives and breathes in us today. God is love and this love “is not sentimental, emotional, but the love of the Father who is the source of all life, the love of the Son who died on the cross and rose, the love of the Spirit who renews man and the world,” Pope Francis.

Some say God is whatever you want him to be, but that can’t be true. God is not a fiction of our creation, or mere reasoning, a philosophy, or a piece of algebra. God is not a problem to be solved but one to be loved, a mystery to be embraced. We believe God has made himself known to us, revealed himself to us, our intellect, our reason, our reflections.

The Holy Trinity reaches out to the world to embrace it, asking us to embrace each other. This is the role of the Church too as the visible sign of God in the world. God calls us to recognize God as father and each other as brother and sister. There are other voices in the world calling us to hate each other, to hurt, to divide sometimes, sadly, in the name of God. God must weep.

To truly honor God, we must embrace the life he offers; we can only do that by embracing the world. The Spirit calls us to create a communion, an interconnectedness in the world and between heaven and earth. We can’t be people of God unless we are a people of love. This can’t be mere sentimentality, but a love that’s real that sheds sweat and tears. We bring God to the world, to the hurt, the poor, the angry, the desolate, to those who seek, search and hope.

Ubi caritas et amor Deus Ibi Est.

Where there is love and charity, there is God.

Choose love always, choose God.

With Love and Blessings,

Fr Damian

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