The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

The Nicene creed begins, “I believe in One God.” The Trinity is One. The three divine persons are really distinct from one another. The divine persons are relative to one another.

God the Father is the creator. The Son is consubstantial with the Father; God from God, light from light and begotten not made. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. This is what we basically know about the holy Trinity. The truth is this: We cannot know God, because the Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the “mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God.”

So, instead of trying to know about the Trinity, we should live the Holy Trinity. As Pope Francis puts it, “We don’t believe in a distant, indifferent entity. On the contrary, we believe in the love that created the universe and generated a people, became flesh, died and rose for us, and as the Holy Spirit transforms everything and brings it to fullness.”

All prayers begin and end with the Trinitarian formula. All blessings are bestowed in this formula. At the sight of a church building; when blessing with holy water; before and after meals; we use the Trinitarian formula. Holy Trinity is the perfect community of love because the Godhead of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is one, their glory equal, their majesty coeternal. So, our society should be modelled after the Holy Trinity.

In the gospel John says, “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” ‘Eternal life’ is not simply ‘unending life’ after death. It means literally “the eon life” or the life of the ‘age to come,’ already begun. It simply means that the new life has already started.

Yes, our new life has already begun. On Monday we are going to reopen our church to celebrate weekday Masses. I welcome you to St. Joseph’s church for the daily Mass. Because no other public spiritual activity is allowed, there will be no Rosary or Eucharistic adoration. So, you can come to the church just before 8.30 am. Those who are considered ‘high risk’ due to age or underlying health conditions please stay home. Sunday Mass will be live-streamed as before.

On this feast of the Most Holy Trinity we pray for the world that it may be healed of all illness and sufferings. We pray for the Church that it may be sanctified. We pray for our country that it may be unified. We pray for the end of this pandemic and all other evil in our society.

Today let us pray to the most Holy Trinity to keep us in its love, joy and peace. May one God and Father from whom all things are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and one Holy Spirit in whom all things are, pour out the blessings upon all of us!