After the Easter season which ends with the solemnity of Pentecost, we celebrate God's work as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The word "Trinity" is a word that conveniently impresses upon us the reality of God who continuously encounters us in the works of creation, as Father, in our redemption, as the Son and in our life of consecration as Holy Spirit. God is "triune" the Divine reality revealed to us by Christ who in HIs life showed us the obedience of a Son to the Father and gave us His Spirit that we too may become sons and daughters of the One He called "Abba".
Read the relevant article you find here and use the following as your guide for reflection.
1. Whenever we make the sign of the cross, we say "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit". When we do that we are actually confessing the special relationship we have with the Trinity for we have been baptized "in the name of the Father, of the Son of the Holy Spirit."
Reflect: Do you ever pray to the Father, to His Son, Jesus Christ and to the Holy Spirit? Do you try to cultivate the special relationship with the Trinity that you have received in your baptism?
2. The doctrine of the Trinity states that whenever we hear the word "God", we should have in our minds the Father who has created us, the Son who has redeemed us and the Holy Spirit who sanctifies us.
Reflect: St. Paul tells us that the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5) thereby inserting us into the life of the Trinity itself. And that life is a life of love since "God is love" (1 John 4:8). Have you ever stopped for a moment to consider this thought?
3. You have perhaps memorized the teaching "three Persons in one God" which is actually a summary of the doctrine of the Trinity. What it means is that because God is love, and love always involves three (the Lover, the Beloved and the Love that binds them both), the Trinity is Love going outside itself in creation, redemption and sanctification and wants to enclose us in its reality, making us a part of the Divine Life of love.Reflect: All of our life as a baptized person is already a participation in that life of love and for that reason, our whole life should also become a life of love spent for others. How loving have you become from the time you were baptized? How unselfish has been your dealing with others? How do you mirror in your life the generosity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?
See also Mag-aral Tayo: Ang Sangtatlo sa Ating Buhay (Roma 5:1-5)
