Holy Trinity 2021

The WORD today reminds me that I should have faith in the Holy Trinity. 

People take interest with mysteries. Aliens, UFO's, paranormal, etc. There are a lot of shows that deal with mysteries and similar things. There are studies. There are people who devote a lot of time, effort and resources to study and know more about mysteries. However, as such, there are also a lot who don't believe in these things. They want scientific proof and evidences. 

Today, we celebrate one of the greatest mysteries of our faith - The Holy Trinity

The readings today tells us of the Holy Trinity. In the first reading, we see a glimpse of this. God was there and has been guiding Moses and the people. In the second reading we see St Paul remind us to live in God's ways, remembering as well Jesus and the Holy Spirit as we live and deal with others.  And in the gospel we see how powerful Jesus as the Son of God is. 

Holy Trinity - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. 

God is everywhere. And God is with us always. 

The psalmist reminds us that we are blessed as God’s chosen people. However, with it comes the responsibility to continue Jesus’ mission. We are to proclaim God and spread his kingdom. We are to do God’s work on earth as Jesus told his apostles in the gospel. But we are to remember that we are not to do this alone. God is always with us through the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Trinity is one of the mysteries of our faith that is very hard to explain and understand. Being a mystery, it is only a heart full of faith that can accept and understand this. We may not be able to explain it well, or may not be able to understand everything, but we just need to have faith. 

Do I believe in the Holy Spirit? How is my relationship with God? Do I have doubts? What do i do about it? Do I pray and try to get to know him more? Do I realize that especially in this pandemic situation, the Holy Spirit is alive? 

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit is one and all there for us. May we feel his presence in our lives, especially as we do his work.

Father God,

Thank you for today. Thank you for another day to live. Thank you for another Sunday. Thank you for your greatness. Thank you for your power. Thank you for your love. And thank you that all these are for me. Help me Lord to do my best and work for you. Help me do your command and make disciples of all nations as I live on earth. Father God, as I live my life, I will not understand everything that is happening. I have questions and concerns. But Lord, I ask for faith that trusts in your love, trusts in the Holy Trinity, even if I cannot explain or understand. And I have faith that you will always be there to help, support, guide and protect me. May I live my life by faith and not by sight. Amen. 

Blessed Sunday!

In Christ,

-g-

May 30, 2021

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity; St. Joan of Arc

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FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 4:32–34, 39–40

Moses said to the people:
“Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created man upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of? Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live? Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the LORD, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other. You must keep his statutes and commandments that I enjoin on you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you forever.”

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RESPONSORIAL PSALM

Psalm 33:4–5, 6, 9, 18–19, 20, 22 (12b)

R. Blessed the people the LORD has chosen to be his own. 

Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the LORD the earth is full. 

R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own. 

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made; by the breath of his mouth all their host. For he spoke, and it was made; he commanded, and it stood forth. 

R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own. 

See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, to deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine. 

R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own. 

Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us who have put our hope in you. 

R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

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SECOND READING

Romans 8:14–17

Brothers and sisters:
Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

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ALLELUIA

Revelation 1:8

R. Alleluia, alleluia. 

Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; to God who is, who was, and who is to come. 

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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GOSPEL

Matthew 28:16–20

The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”