Today, just a week after Pentecost, the holy mother church celebrates the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The Church invites us to pause and reflect on the deepest truth of our faith: One God in Three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Today’s celebration is a song of praise to God, who has called us to share in the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity. Two concise prayers and blessings that comes with this feast include: “May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you,” and “May the Almighty God bless you the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Our very Christian life is journey into the Holy Trinity, where believers grow in relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, experiencing God’s love, guidance, and transformative presence daily. Baptism and Confirmation are our launching point. The Eucharist sustains us as food for the journey. The Sacrament of Penance keeps us on track helping us to stay aligned with the Truth. Marriage and Holy Orders arrange our particular journey in a special way, and we get a last-minute boost from the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.

But the final destination of our journey is eternal life in communion with God, the Father, Son and the Holy Spirt.

In Exodus, God reveals Himself to Moses as “merciful and gracious, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity.” This reveals the steadfast love of God the Father. In John’s Gospel, God the Son is the gift of the Father’s love, sent not to condemn but to save, “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son…”. The Holy Trinity represents the fullness of love, for God is love. The Father loves the Son, the Son loves the Father. The Holy Spirit is their love for each other.

The Spirit is the bond of love, drawing us into communion with God and with one another. Whenever we sign ourselves with the Sign of the Cross, we are wishing ourselves Grace, Love and Fellowship of the Holy Trinity (second reading).

Everything we do is a trinitarian expression that the Father is with us, the Son is one with us and makes us his own brothers and sisters, and the Holy Spirit fills our lives with courage and everything we need in order to understand, to know each other, to love each other, to care for each other, to forgive each other. Amen.