HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF HOLY TRINITY. (2)

HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF HOLY TRINITY.

THEME: God is Community!

BY: Fr. Justus Oruma

(a) The Blessed Trinity is the greatest mystery; no one can understand how God is 1 and 3 in persons and eac

HOMILY FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF HOLY TRINITY.

THEME: God is Community!

BY: Fr. Justus Oruma

 

(a) The Blessed Trinity is the greatest mystery; no one can understand how God is 1 and 3 in persons and each of the 3 persons is God, yet there is only one God. This is not something we understand with the intelligence of the head but could be sensed in the heart: that God is simply the relationship between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Thus God is essentially Team, God is Community, God is cooperation, God is fellowship as expressed in 2Cor.13:13, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you” This fellowship is the innermost life of God.

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(b) We are products of the Team and Cooperation between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; “let us make man” said God. Our life thus is essentially; community, team-spirit and cooperation. Our life has no meaning without the Other. Imagine you having all the good things, money, houses, cars, and other things you may wish but existing all alone in whole wide world; with one to share this life, no human to talk to, no human to sense your existence, you live all alone with no humans. Such life would be meaningless and absurd. So, the existence of other human beings add meaning to our lives. One “ought” not to be threat and wolf to the other. One “ought” to be teammate and cooperator and not obstacle to progress of the other. That is not the human image reflecting the image of God, 3 in 1. Our life is a trinitarian community by nature.

(c) The products of cooperation among the 3 persons in God is always “order” and “beauty”. The entire world which God created – in Greek is called “Kosmos”, meaning beauty, order, arrangement. Our sincere cooperation with one another beginning from the family will ALWAYS yield something beautiful. Individualism and egoism are the root causes of wars, disagreements, disorders and “akosmos” and so we destroy the family, community and the world born out of the community and fellowship of God. Upon many families, houses and communities we pray: “may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you” Amen

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