Sunday Reflection (June 4, 2023)

This Sunday we celebrated the mystery of Trinity. God has not left us without a spiritual witness that leads us to God:  Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. To listen to the Spirit is to listen to the Son and to listen to the Son is to listen to the Father. In the first three verses of Genesis the Word of God and the Spirit originate in God and proceed from God to embrace creation (Genesis 1:1-3).

God is not a distant, impersonal God who demands blind obedience or no obedience at all; rather, the Holy Spirit moves from God and brings us into fellowship with Christ, each other, and the Father whom we address as “Our Father who art in heaven.” In Jesus Christ God’s Word was enfleshed (or the Latin word, “incarnate”) and lived among us (John 1:1-5, 14). Through this move from God to us, Christ is formed within us and among us (John 1:15-17).  As a response to this move from God to us, God invites us to participate in the move of God’s compassion to the world by learning to be his disciples and teaching others to be his disciples (Matthew 28:16-20).