Heavenly Father, You so loved the world that You sent Your only Begotten Son to be one of us, not to condemn the world but to redeem the world. Before Your Son went to the Cross to destroy the power of sin and death, he prayed to You. And in this prayer he said that before the foundation of the world, before anything was ever made, he shared Your glory as Your only begotten Son. This love You have for Your Son, this glory You give to Him, is the Holy Spirit. This same love and glory Jesus gives to us so that we may be one, as You and the Son are One.
Homily for Trinity Sunday Year A: 4 June 2023; John 3:16-18
God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
However many times we hear this text repeated, it retains its power to astonish us, to humble, thrill, amaze, move, inspire; to bring us to our knees in worship and thanksgiving, or to lift us up in joyful wonder. John 3:16 is a good text for the Feast of the Holy Trinity, because today especially we step back, as it were, simply to praise God: for what he is, and for what he has done; to contemplate his greatness and glory, and to ponder our eternal destiny with him.
Homily for the Feast of the Holy Trinity, 12 June 2022 - DJC
On this solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity the Church gives praise to God simply that “He is”. God is Three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit in one Nature; each Person is distinct from one another; each Person is truly God yet this does not divided the divine Unity. God is one but not solitary. It is a mystery infinitely beyond human reason. God had to reveal this mystery to us: