A well educated man came to a priest and criticized:“You Christians have some logical and mathematical problems.
You think 1 +1 = 1: It is about your teachings on married life.
For you one man plus one woman makes not two persons, but one.
Then you teach 1 +1 +1 = 1: that's about your God:
God is Father, Son and Spirit. So they are three.
Still you count yourselves as monotheist.
Not only that: You teach God incarnates as a man.
And this man has been crucified as a criminal.
And you believe him as the Saviour and claim that he is risen from the dead.
But can any dead live again?
No history, no science, no logic can confirm it; So I remain an atheist.”
The Priest asked quietly: “How many close friends do you have”?
“Many”. “Ok, do you know every thing about these friends?”…
After a silence he replied: “not every thing, but almost”…
“You claim, you are good friends, but you don’t know fully about them.
How can we, then know about God, who is supreme than humans?”
The man returned in silence…
My dear friends, many people think like this man today.
For them God must think and act always according to our human logic and calculation. And this is the problem in understanding God.
If I listen to a lecture on modern technology without having basic information I may not understand any thing.
Or just take the example of daily life. We use so much electronic products. Are we using them with complete know how?
The Desire to understand is surely a good and positive approach but the truth is that, you can not understand every thing.
In such a way it is not easy to say we want to understand God.
Then God is greater than all the sciences and technology.
All we can do is to do some attempts and move closer to God.
The Holy Bible is a great help to understand some aspects of God, of course with in the limits of our human reasoning.
In that way the first Reading reminds us about the greatness of Yahweh.
We see him acting as a Saviour and liberator of his people. He reveals himself as a merciful God. This is a new face of God for them.
Then they previously knew only the gods who were arrogant and violent.
The second reading from the Romans, is more acceptable for us. God is called as Father - Abba. Because we are all connected to God through Jesus Christ, His Son.
As the apostle Paul says, we are not only the children of God but also heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.
This picture is closer than the first.
We can now approach God without fear and inhibitions.
And those who believe in this God through Christ, becomes God's child and is freed by the Holy Spirit. This is the message of the gospel to the disciples. The disciples have to bring this good news of liberation in God to all people and thus save humanity.
We believe and celebrate the presence of God in the Triune God. Then Jesus says: “I am with you always, until the end of the age“:
My dear friends,
Trinity is not a feast of confirming the authority of God.
It gives us the message of acceptance, participation and sharing.
God shares His divinity with Christ and the Holy Spirit.
This God welcomes us human, as his children.
This is the very special matter of the trinity.
Our God is not the only Ruling God.
He loves and lives communion and unity in peace and joy.
There is no place for human logic and mathematics in this love.
Because, real love is blind and God is Love.
Trinity is the egoless love between God the Father, Son and Spirit and we are blessed by called to participate in this love with others and our nature as well.
Let us open our hearts to receive that love.
May the triune God bless us all. Amen.
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Fr Thomas Kalathil
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