Today we celebrated the feast of the Blessed Trinity--The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit--three persons, one God! In today's first reading, God revealed her/himself when Moses went up to the Mountain at God's command. "[T]he Lord stood with Moses...and proclaimed his name, 'Lord.' Thus the Lord passed before him and cried out, 'The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity.'" Immediately Moses fell to his knees and said to God: "If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and receive us as your own." God is our Creator, our parent. Which parent, when a child, no matter what kind of wickedness he/she might have gotten involved in, does not, with open arms, receive back a child as his/her own. God, I believe, is no different. As a parent-as a mother/father God, God cherishes us, welcomes us back as His/Her own.
May you and I never forget God's words to Moses: I am "a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity." God is kindness. God is graciousness. God is fidelity. When you and I say that of any other person, we truly mean it and know it! This is a person we are not afraid to approach, especially when we have done wrong, are filled with shame and are afraid! The person we know to be kind, rich in mercy and faithful to us is the person we seek out. God is that person!
In the second reading, 2 Cor 13: 11-13, St. Paul prays for us with the words: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you" : the Trinity be with us all!
In the Gospel, John 3: 16-18, John reminds us that God so loved us that He sent His only begotten Son to the world to save it, not condemn it, thus emphasizing that God is "a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity" that that She not only wants to "come along in our company," but wants to be one of us, a human being like all of us except sin. Truly the Son became one of us, not to condemn us but to show us the Father's mercy and then send us the love of the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit, to bring us to all truth!
Wow! what an awesome God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one with us and with all of creation!
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