Holy Trinity: Their relation to Us

 Reflection on Today’s Readings, the Solemnity of Holy Trinity, June 12th, 2022

Texts: Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalm 8:4-5.6-7a.7b-9; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15

Today is the solemnity of the Holy Trinity; we remind ourselves once again that our God is one in three persons. We are to know that the one God is not shared among the three persons; each of them is wholly God. The Son is God as the Father is and also as the Holy Spirit is. None of them is less God than the others. Today’s readings tell us how each of the persons of the Trinity is related to us and how we are related to each of God. The first reading tells us how God is the originator of wisdom. Jesus Christ, the Son, is the personified wisdom. Hence, the first reading simply teaches us that God the Son proceeds from the Father. The Son proceeds from the Father from all eternity. It is said, “When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water, Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth; before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.” God the Father is the source of what is, He is the principle of existence. We are from God the Father.  

The firs reading also teaches us that the Son is a witness to the creation of heaven and earth; He knows the works of  the Father. Jesus Christ Himself says, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” Being a witness to the creation makes Him the Lord of creation; He has power over creation, whatever is. Knowing the Father He becomes the way to the Father. He also knows us and that makes Him able to proffer solution to our problems.

Paul, in today’s second reading, tells us that it is through faith in the Son that we make peace with God. It is said, “Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.” Whatever we enjoy as Christians and Whatever hope we have are made possible by the faith in Jesus Christ. Our joy is inspired and caused by the hope given us through Jesus Christ. With our hope in Jesus Christ we are filled with joy that we can surmount any challenge, trouble. It is said, “More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

The gospel reading tells us more about the Holy Spirit. He is to guide us into all the truth. He shall guide us by illuminating our minds with the light of truth; He is not going to impose the truth on us. He will simply make the truth evident to us, that we might follow. He will speak nothing different from what the Father and the Son have. It is said, “He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” We see here the communion of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son.  

God our Father, who by sending into the world the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification made known to the human race your wondrous mystery, grant us, we pray, that in professing the true faith, we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty. Amen

Fr. Andrew  Olowomuke