From the Homily of Pope Benedict XVI on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
May 18, 2008
“…Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.” 2 Cor 12:11
“… In today’s First Reading, we heard a biblical text that presents to us the revelation of God's Name. It is God Himself, Eternal and Invisible, who proclaims it, passing before Moses in the cloud on Mount Sinai. And His Name is: "The Lord, a God merciful, and compassionate, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness"…
In the New Testament, St. John sums up this sentence in a single word: "Love".” Today's Gospel also testifies to this: "God so loved the world that He gave His Only Son" (Jn 3: 16)… Words like "merciful", "compassionate", "rich in grace" all speak to us of a relationship, in particular, of a vital Being who offers Himself, who wants to fill every gap, every shortage, who wants to give and to forgive, who desires to establish a solid and lasting bond. Sacred Scripture knows no other God than the God of the Covenant who created the world in order to pour out his love upon all creatures… Jesus showed us the Face of God, one in Essence and Triune in Persons...
Today’s Feast invites us to contemplate Him, the Lord. It invites us in a certain sense to scale "the mountain" as Moses did. This seems at first sight to take us far from the world and its problems but in fact one discovers that it is precisely by coming to know God more intimately that one receives fundamental instructions for this our life…
Jesus has revealed to us that man is essentially a "son", a creature who lives in the relationship with God the Father, and in this way in relationship with all his brothers and sisters… In a society fraught between globalization and individualism, the Church is called to offer a witness of koinonìa, of communion. This reality… "has its roots in Heaven", in the Triune God himself. It is He, in Himself, who is the eternal dialogue of love which was communicated to us in Jesus Christ and woven into the fabric of humanity and history to lead it to fullness.”
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