Life with the Trinity

A portion of the Last Supper Discourse of Jesus from the Gospel of John is presented today in the texts from the Roman CatholicLectionary. Jesus explains that the understanding of God which we seek cannot be received all at once. The channel through which we acquire experience, knowledge, perception and inspiration is finite and limited. Our contemplation of the awe and wonder of Creation around us reveals the shallowness of our grasp of the great “Why?” question. Friar Jude Winkler comments that the Scripture Scholars of the Hebrew Testament struggled with how to convey the One God with so many attributes experienced by people. The personification of the Wisdom attribute of God as a woman is included in the text from the Book of Proverbs. The Wisdom is God Creator as the universe of awe and wonder is brought into being and the Love Life of the Father is breathed upon the waters. Paul address the Romans to explain that we will find peace with God or justification as we live in the trust that our lives are beyond our understanding except that they are intended to witness to the glory of God which is Love. This witness will not necessarily be without trial and suffering through which our endurance will build strength so that our hope of peace with God will be realized. Our inspiration and motivation for the Life of Loving Witness comes from the Holy Spirit. The invitation which is outlined and reoffered through our lives, asFather Larry Gillick SJ notes is to live in the Life of the Trinity. Our being participates in a non understandable daily relationship with Jesus and the Father through the Spirit. The Trinitarian Nature of the Divine, in which we are invited to live, is the specifically Christian way of speaking about God as Professor Lucy Lind Hogan quotes Catherine Mowry LaCugna from her book, God for Us. Scott P.Richert, in the About.com Guide on Trinity Sunday writes it is in honor of the most fundamental of Christian beliefs—belief in the Holy Trinity.