Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity and the great love that God shows us by revealing Himself to us. We pause to contemplate the inner life of our God – a life of intimate and loving communion between the Father, Son, and Spirit, a mysterious eternal exchange of love – “the divine romance” as Archbishop Fulton Sheen calls it.
The great mystery of the Trinity underscores once again what God reveals in sacred scripture – that God is love (1 John 4:8), and that God loves us so much that He took on our humanity so that we might enter into His love and become one with Him (John 15:10). And to be one with God is to be one with each other – to love each other, to serve each other, to care for each other (John 13:34-35).
And we are reminded that the Holy Trinity – our God – is not a distant or abstract God, but a personal God who is always present to us, loving us, and active in our lives – a God who has chosen to extend his divine friendship to us, and empowers us to extend ourselves to others.
Today we thank God for drawing us to him, we accept God’s invitation to enter into the love of the Trinity, and we ask God to give us the grace to grow in love, communion, and solidarity with each other.
“Since before all time God enjoyed the amiable society of His three persons in the Holy Trinity and hence had no need ever to go outside of Himself in search of happiness. The greatest wonder of all is that, being perfect and enjoying perfect happiness, God ever should have made a world. God could only have had one motive for making it. God made a world only because He loved.” – Fulton Sheen