Most Holy Trinity – May 26, 2024
We might dust off our theology school notes and review the Catechism and other texts to help us explain the Holy Trinity for this Sunday’s liturgies. We need to do this to ensure we are grounded in the solid teaching of the church.
But if that is our only approach to prepare for this Sunday, then we might indeed communicate information about Catholicism to our assemblies but miss the opportunity to lead them into deeper intimacy and communion with Jesus.
Intimacy is the way Jesus taught his disciples to make disciples, not with indifferent, impersonal doctrine but through closeness and proximity, in love with those whom God adores.
So let us also turn to the Scriptures to reveal how God desires to be known. In the first reading, Moses reminds the Israelites of God’s faithful love. Their God is not aloof or distant but takes the initiative to connect personally with his own. This God will not give up on them, whether they turn away by choice or are captured by force.
What the word of God teaches us here is that God is crazy in love with us. In Jesus, we have a God of relentless intimacy who can’t stand to be apart from us. This is the God in whose name we are baptized and in whose name we make disciples. This intimacy is also the way Jesus taught his disciples to make disciples, not with indifferent, impersonal doctrine but through closeness and proximity, in love with those whom God adores.
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