Back to back feasts: Pentecost, Trinity Sunday and the Christ's Most Holy Body and Blood. Mysteries? That they all are. But also “Realities,” seemingly impossible to understand. But letting our minds wrestle with them - how much we uncover about this awesome God and what God made us capable of becoming. That God left up to us to go there.
WHO IS GOD? WHO ARE WE?
What is my life but a time to come to know and love God and why God brought me into existence? With each passing day as i get closer to my final earthly destination – heaven’s door – should I be trying to comprehend more fully these mysteries of our Catholic faith. And whom will I meet there at heaven’s door? A stranger? A God who will be something of a stranger because I didn’t use much of my lifetime to get to know God and to grow to love God?
GETTING TO KNOW ANOTHER
Think about it. How do you and I get to know and love someone? . . . your spouse? . . . your child? . . . your best friend? A natural process it is for us to learn to love another: be with the person, explore the person, get to know their mystery, their truth, their meaning. Perhaps God made us that way, hoping we would use those same innate gifts to discover and fall in love with God.
God is so gentle with us in this regard – not forcing Himself upon us, but hoping we would find Him/Her. (And isn’t that the way we are with our children and with those we care about: not forcing ourselves on them, but hoping – so very much hoping – they will find us?)
Doesn’t that seem to be the sole reason for our existence: to make that discovery, to come to know God while we are living, so that our hearts and the whole world are filled with God’s love?
Do you agree? Take a few moments the think about that. Be present to the God who is everywhere, even right now in you and around you, If you can, talk to God about this.
As Jesus reminds us in John’s Gospel, the Father has given us an Advocate to be with us always, to remain with us, to be in us.
THE FULLNESS OF CATHOLIC BELIEF: GOD AND US – ALL OF US AND ALL OF CREATION!
I think that Catholicism, boiled down to its essence, is three simple but profound statements:
• God is Love.
• God is Trinity – a communion of persons.
• We – you, me, each and every one of us – we participate in God – now, at this very moment as you read this.
In some ways, this is a mystery. But, in the deepest way, it is as firm as the holy ground on which we stand and as all-consuming as the greatest love we could ever imagine. Sheer gift from God to us – affirmed by Christ, “I will not leave you orphans.” – the essence and the joy of our every day reality. Think of it, especially during these annual Feast of Pentecost, Trinity Sunday and the Most Precious Body and Blood of Christ.
Sister Loretta
