Title: Meditation: Sunday, May 26, 2002

The Catholic Calendar for Sunday, May 26, 2002
    The Most Holy Trinity

Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
    Exodus 34:4-6,8-9
    Daniel 3:52-56
    2 Corinthians 13:11-13
    John 3:16-18

A reflection on today's Scripture:

In a certain sense, many Christians today seem to take the Holy Trinity
for granted. Today's scripture alludes to the Jews learning about the
mighty Lord our God when Moses went up Mount Sinai. Many hundreds of
years pass until the Messiah appears and explains that there is even
more to believe: God's only Son: Jesus, plus the very animus, the spirit
of God the Father: the Holy Spirit.

God and the intimate construction of his triune nature will always be a
mystery for us mere mortals. Since we are privy to practically all other
knowledge in the universe, we are boggled and stumped by the concept and
the reality of the Trinity. Yet, we are asked to believe in faith!

Again and again throughout his lifetime, Jesus referred to the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit. If we who are baptized are to call
ourselves "Christians", then we must truly have faith and believe.
Belief also means to learn scripture and to apply its truths to our
lives, turning from sin and embracing virtue. Let us stop first and
examine ourselves the next time we are tempted to gossip or to choose
self over the needs of others.

- Joachim
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          O Lord, our God,
              may your unremitting light
              illumine every dark corner of our hearts
              that all pride and pretense be exposed and eradicated
              as we see ourselves
              as You see us.
              Amen.


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