Reading of the holy gospel according to John 16:12-15
12I still have much to tell you, but now you cannot handle it.
13 When he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to the complete truth; for he will not speak on his account, but he will speak what he hears, and he will announce to you what is to come.
14 He will give me glory, because he will receive what is mine and declare it to you.
fifteenEverything the Father has is mine. That is why I have said: he will receive what is mine and he will announce it to you.
Lord’s word.
The church invites us today to focus our attention, and hopefully our hearts on God, and contemplate a more intimate mystery, his being: one God being three different persons. In the face of mystery, any mystery, man has no choice but to accept or reject.
Mystery is by definition something that can be affirmed or denied but that, in no case, will easily show us its secret; the existence of the mystery is not grasped when it is understood, for to understand it would be to deny it. In the face of mystery, you have to respect and admire, surprise and be overwhelmed; it is the only human way to react to it.
The believer has no greater mystery to contemplate than that of his own God because it will always be an unanswered question, an always open provocation.
It is Jesus himself who has revealed to us how God wanted to be for us. His word and his life have told us about a whole God, who has loved us so much, as to love us in three different ways: as a Father, thinking of us when nothing existed and giving us room in his heart, before making us the work of his hands ; as a Son, made in our image, living as one of us, and dying for all of us; as Spirit, coming upon us like divine breath, and remaining with us, while groping and sometimes lost we walk towards God
It was Jesus who revealed to us something that we would not have even suspected: that God is not a single person, but a community, a family that he wanted to be for us.
God, in effect, “multiplied himself” to better demonstrate his love for us. God is our Father, Son and Spirit; If we let ourselves be loved by that triune God, we would appreciate the imagination and the resources that God has wasted to love us in such a personal way, as diverse and as real, as divine so as to know us better.
The more we recognize ourselves loved, the more we will live its mystery, without needing to understand it. Jesus assures us today, in the Gospel, of the great interest that God has for us since, before leaving his own in the world, he promised to leave them his Spirit, and he was able to do so because everything he had he had received from the Father.
Jesus did not abandon his own; giving us his Spirit, he gave us a Master who will always be with us wherever we are. Jesus wanting to stay among us, when he had to return to the Father, he left us the best of himself, what he had received from God, his own Spirit.
Let us, then, take seriously the Trinity of God that we celebrate today, let us be surprised to have a God who, because he is close to us, manages to be three different people in his actions, but unique in his love. Believing today in the Trinity of God means knowing that you are loved by God three times.
That is the reason for our celebration that today we could turn it into a reason for perpetual gratitude. Who can say that they have such a God, who if not us, can boast of a God who loves us so much… well, let us dedicate ourselves to living joyfully accepting the mystery of God and enjoying his love… In this way, we will undoubtedly come out on top
Enjoy the presence of God in the Mass and in the family!
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