Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015

The Most Holy Trinity

May 31, 2015

 

Dear Parishioners,

Where have you bumped into God in the last week? I suspect that it was not while you were engrossed in some deeply theological discussion about the Most Holy Trinity. God does not use that kind of language with us. God uses words like rainbow and sunshine, and mist and flower, to get our attention. We experience God in creation. We see the beauty that God has created and that touches us. We know that God is a God of love. God touches us through other people. An unexpected phone call! A random act of kindness! An apology! God talks to us all the time. God sounds like the cries of those who are dying and the gasps of those being born, like breezes and storms, like tears and laughter, like waves crashing against the shore.

God talked to me this week. It was as I was walking along the shore with waves crashing upon the rocks. The sun was rising and I felt its wonderful power as it transformed the night into day. I rejoiced that we have a loving Creator God.

I experience God so often through other people. It’s not the things they say about God, but the things they do, their actions, their living faith, that convince me that the Spirit of God is working in and through humanity. “Jesus Christ is in you,” Paul says to the Corinthians. He challenges us to test our faith. We, who are disciples of Jesus today, are called, as were the first disciples, to worship, to teach, to be disciples. The Church is the witness of the Resurrected Jesus. Through the witness of others we come to know God who redeems us. It is that which enables us to reach out to others in love. It is the Spirit working in us that convinces us of our need to be good stewards of God’s creation. It is the Spirit working in us that leads us to compassionate caring. And what a need there is for that in our world today! If we take the time to listen, we can hear the sigh of the oppressed, the whimpering of the starving, the pleading of the sick, and the crying of the marginalized.

Can we hear the words of Jesus commissioning us, sending us out into the world to bring God’s healing love? “Go and make disciples of all nations,” Jesus says to each one of us. We are called to go out and join God in caring for the world. It is a call to tell people about Jesus. But, above all, it is a call to take up the work of loving people that no one else loves. It is a call to pay attention to the places where God’s Spirit is at work building peace, and to do what we can to help. As we go, we remember that the God who created us watches over us, that Jesus loves us and calls us to forgive one another, and that the Holy Spirit is with us to comfort and to give us more power than we can ever imagine.

Have a blessed week, and remember to be kind to one another!

 

Fr. Leonard+

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