SUNDAY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY  - 2020

ü  Before we submerge ourselves in the daily living of our faith, the liturgy invites us to meditate on the adorable mystery of our God and, next week on the mystery of the Eucharist. 

ü  Our God is a community of persons and he has created us in his image, and thus able to enter into relationships, and with the need to communicate with other human beings.  

FIRST READING:   Exodus 34: 4b-6,8-9

Ø  God has called Moses and, very early in the morning, he goes up to Mount Sinai with two stone tablets. 

Ø  God comes down in the cloud, which is one of the symbols that Scripture uses to represent the presence of God.  In the story of the Ascension a cloud conceals the vision of Jesus, and the disciples do not see him anymore. This wants to let us know that Jesus has entered into a new form of life, a new relationship with us.   

Ø  And the book of exodus continues saying that God proclaims his name  

Ø  His name is LORD, and he continues to explain who he is 

o   He is merciful and generous    

o   Slow to anger and rich in love and faithfulness.   

§  God is rich in kindness, tender al welcoming love  

§  God is faithful to himself, to his word, to his love for his creation.

Ø  On hearing the words of God, Moses prostates himself in adoration, this is the posture of man before God, in his presence there cannot be any arrogance, we all feel our nothingness and thus we incline ourselves to the dust. 

Ø  But Moses feels that God loves him, that God is good, and that God listens to he who speaks and asks something from him. 

o   If I have your favor, I ask you to journey with us   

o   Even if sometimes we are a stubborn people    

o   Forgive our sins and accept us as your own. 

Ø  Jesus is the God- with- us who has come to dwell and journey with us.   He has said that he will be with us until the end of time, and he has also said that he who sees him sees the Father, that is to say, that Jesus is the image of the Father, the sacrament of the Father.  

Ø  He will be with us and he will help us to live to the full the mission he has entrusted to each one of us and to all together forming a church, a community in the image of the Trinitarian community.

Ø  This is for all of us, not only for   Catholics but for all the baptized. Together we are called to transform this world into the Kingdom of God with the Spirit that has been given to us.

Ø  Before leaving Jesus says to all his disciples “go, make disciples of all the nations, teaching, baptizing…” and these new baptized are also called to go…. And all together we cooperate with God in the transformation and  creation of this world.

 RESPONSORIAL PSALM– Daniel 3:52-55

R. (52b) Glory and praise for ever!
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers,
praiseworthy and exalted above all forever;
And blessed is your holy and glorious name,
praiseworthy and exalted above all for all ages.
R. Glory and praise for ever!
Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory,
praiseworthy and glorious above all forever.
R. Glory and praise for ever!
Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom,
praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.
R. Glory and praise for ever!
Blessed are you who look into the depths
from your throne upon the cherubim,
praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.
R. Glory and praise for ever!.

v The Lord is the God of our fathers.   

v The temple of the Lord is his creation and especially the human being.  

v His gaze fills everything with his love and tenderness.  

SECOND READING  2Cor 13:11-13

     Paul invites us to   

o   Encourage one another  

o   Live in peace    

     And he continues saying that God who is the God of peace and love will be with us.  

     He invites us to greet each other with the holy kiss.  

     And he says that the saints, greet us. Who are this saints? All those baptized.   

     This fragment ends with an invocation to the Most Holy Trinity  

o   The grace of the Lord Jesus    

o   The love of God (Father)  

o   And the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us.   

GOSPEL, Jn 3:16-18

v God has loved the world so much that he has given us his only son.  We may say: God loves the world so much that he gives us his only Son. (in the present tense) 

v Why? Because God is always present,  he is neither “I was”  nor “I will be”. 

v He has given us his Son so that, believing in him, we may be saved, that is we may welcome his salvation which is given us plentifully without having previously done anything to receive it. 

v And God sends his son not to condemn the world but to save it.  

v We condemn ourselves to be far from God when we do not believe, when we do not welcome the gift that is offered to us graciously, when we do not love and do not pardon with compassion all our brothers and sisters.   

v I pondered, as I do frequently, and I asked myself, where we have gotten  the idea that if we do such and such we will be condemned. But on the contrary God through the Gospel of John says to us, that neither the Father nor Jesus the incarnate son of God condemns anyone, on the contrary Jesus is sent and comes to us in order to share with us his being the Son and to save us.

v God has created us so that we may be close to Him and live his own life for ever, and he has given us enough proofs for us to believe this. The spirit of evil wants us to believe that God is a judge who wants to condemn us. This is not true, this comes from the spirit of lie. 

CLARETIAN CORNER 

PARIS

Our Lord does not ask for anything new in his Church; he only asks all of us what we have promised him.  Our Divine Redeemer asks us to observe his Holy Law, and he asks this particularly of the Bishops in such a special way, and with so much eagerness that I do not know how to express; he only demands it of them, as if the world’s well-being depended on them.

            We have said that no one should excuse himself.  The Lord’s Holy Law is one and he orders it            to be preached equally in the whole world without exceptions, neither of people, nor                            kingdoms, nor provinces.  Then his grace is ready to fulfill it in all parts and people (Venerable                 María Antonia  Paris. “Plan for the Renewal…” in Paris y Claret two pens… n 12-13)

              CLARET

The Church of Jesus Christ, extended and communicated, is Jesus Christ in his plenitude.  The Church as the body which is composed by many members, is subordinated to her head; as espouse, shares in his majesty, exercises his authority and honors his fecundity;  for this she needed the title of spouse, so that we could see her as the faithful companion of Jesus Christ, the distributor of the graces, the director of the family, the mother always fruitful by the preaching and the sacraments, and the wet nurse always charitable, and loving her children, whom she nourishes with her abundant breast of doctrine and good works. (St. Antony Mary Claret, “Notes of a Plan… “ in Claret and Paris, two pens… n.3) 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

MUÑOZ, M. Hortensia and TUTZO, Regina Claretian Missionaries. Paris and Claret Two Pens Moved by the Same Spirit.  2010.