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Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Sunday, June 7th, 2020. Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
"If I find favor with you, Lord, please, Lord, come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and claim us as your own.”
How ‘close’ do I want others to be? Does the ‘Closeness’ of others make me feel endangered? Does it make me feel threatened? What do I see when others are ‘close’?
America is in the midst of what Pope Francis has described as ‘social unrest’. There is a serious dent in our ‘closeness’ as people right now. The pandemic has set the scene. All the social distancing and regulations have made us yearn for the ‘closeness’ we had before, but not yet. This fills us with anxiety. As experts are telling us the pandemic has strongly impacted ‘the poor’ in our country, but does their death (the large numbers of their death), even move us a bit? Are we numb to their pleas? Might we ask pause and maybe not come up with the usual scripted answers and ask ourselves why? The events of Minneapolis have unearthed the old wounds of our country that are wounds of ‘closeness’. Do I value the dignity and life of the other, in the same way as mine? Do I want for ‘the other’ the same prosperity and joy that I enjoy? If not, why?
The feast we celebrate today, Trinity Sunday, is about the ‘closeness of God’. We ponder the relationship between God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. They are ‘close’. Each exists for the other. Each exists that the other may accomplish their role fully. ‘Closeness’ is not exclusive, but for the other or for others.
The Challenge of the readings is that we who come to worship God must exhibit the same closeness as God does in our relationship with others. That our ‘Closeness’ is for others.
In the Readings, we listen to Moses' prayer before God. Moses is the only person in the scriptures who has the absolute access to God. He is ‘close’ to God. As he is face to face with God, he always finds the ability to ask for his people. He requests God’s company (‘come along’) and asks the forgiveness and pardon of his people. Moses’ closeness to God is for others.
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16
God’s closeness to the World, meant that he ‘gives’ his only Son, that ‘others’ might not perish. The Son comes into the world not to condemn, but to save. Closeness is for others.
My prayer this Trinity Sunday is for our nation, that God may give us the humility to stop and re-examine our lives with one another. We must rewrite 'our closeness'. What must we mend in our ways with others? How can we be a people who live in peace unthreatened by the presence of the other? Why the hate of the other? May the ‘way of God’s closeness' rub off on us.
For the Christian, the standard of the Gospel is even higher: To know God (to be close to God) is to manifest God (to be like Him). To Love God is to communicate that Love.
Let us work hard, that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all.
Fr. Anthony
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