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Spiritual Reflection
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May 27, 2010 | | | |  | Sunday of The Most Holy Trinity, May 30, 2010
We celebrate and honour the Trinity – God the Father, Son & Holy Spirit.
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity – God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe that God has one nature, yet at the same time is three distinct persons. The mystery of the Trinity is central to our faith, but it is only by God's self-revelation that we can come to know, in some small measure, who God is.
The Book of Genesis gives us a picture of the Creator. God the Father speaks – and light and dark, earth and sea, plants and animalscome into being. Humankind is formed out of the clay of the ground and God's breath gives life. Through human sinfulness our relationship with God was broken, and by God's grace we are able to know again the Creator who made us and loves us.
On the mountain, Moses met God in the burning bush. At God's command Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt and he remains close to the people providing them with manna and water from the rock. On another mountain God reveals himself as the giver of the law. God shows himself to be merciful, slow to anger and rich in kindness as he hears the plea of Moses to remain faithful to the people, even in their infidelity.
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus continually revealed to us God the Father, and reminded us how much the Father loves us. All that Jesus taught and all that he did was in accord with the will of the Father. Jesus revealed the Father's plan for our salvation, and accepted death on the Cross to fulfill it. It is in knowing Jesus that one can know the Father, because the two are one.
The disciples, filled with the Holy Spirit were able to speak boldly about the good news that Jesus brought to the world. In one way or another, we are all teachers, and will be held to account for how we teach others about Jesus. | | | | | |
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 Our Lady of Lourdes - In 1858, in a grotto, near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception, asked that a chapel be built on the site of the vision, and told the girl to drink from a fountain in the grotto. When Bernadette dug at a spot designated by the apparition, a spring began to flow. The water from this still flowing spring has shown remarkable healing power, though it contains no curative property that science can identify. Lourdes has become the most famous modern shrine of Our Lady. |
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