Trinity Sunday

Here are the readings for the Solemnity of The Most Holy Trinity, Sunday June 19, 2011:

Exodus 34: 4b-6, 8-9
Psalm: Daniel 3: 52-56
2 Corinthians 13: 11-13
John 3: 16-18

We most directly know about God as Trinity through the revelation of Jesus. At his baptism in the Jordan, there is the voice from heaven and the descent of the spirit 'like a dove'. At his return to the Father, Jesus promised his Spirit would be with us always. In his Last Supper Discourses, Jesus repeatedly emphasized the unity inherent in God.  We know our God to be one who has created all, whose love and mercy is offered for our salvation and who lives with us to empower and guide, comfort and sustain us. 

While we rightly speak of the Triune God as a "Mystery" (a reality beyond our ability to fully comprehend) today's scripture passages all reveal important aspects of the nature of God. I invite you to take these scriptural words and phrases describing God to prayer, in preparation for this Sunday's Mass:

• merciful
• gracious
• slow to anger
• rich in kindness
• faithful
• love
• peace
• so loved the world
• not.. to condemn... be saved

This is one of those rare Sundays when the Responsorial Psalm is not from the book of Psalms, but a hymn attributed to the 3 faithful Jews as they walked unscathed through a fiery furnace (put there for refusal to worship idols), and based on Psalm 148-- an all-encompassing song of praise to God who created and sustains all!

If you'd like to do a little further reading about this mystery of the Triune God, click here for a helpful article.

No RCIA groups are meeting this Sunday or this week. The next Mystagogia date is July 17.

and: Happy Father's Day!!