Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, John 16,12-15

Today’s celebration, the celebration of the Holy Trinity, is seemingly the least understandable for us Christians, but also essential. Why? It shows the inner divine relationship into which we are to grow all our lives, which is also the fundamental pillar of the heavenly kingdom. And many Christians have chosen to ignore this question of faith altogether. I have one God, so don’t drag the trio into it. But to whom could he relate if there was only one God? Well, either just to himself, and then he would be a perfect egoist, or to those people on earth, and then he would be dependent on those people.

Well, I’m crazy. What is the priest saying here? In other words, the most perfect image of God’s trinity is a functioning family. The loving relationship between the Father and the Son and the fruit of their love, the third, namely, the Holy Spirit. So does a functioning family. A third child is born from the loving relationship between a man and a woman. And not only does it give birth, as in the relationship in God’s Trinity, the Father, God the Creator, the Son God the Redeemer and the Holy Spirit God the Comforter have an unmistakable role, even in the family, everyone has their unmistakable role, their rights, but also their obligations, and the worst thing is when I give the child absolutely everything, they don’t have to worry about anything. Then I wonder if I want something from him, but he doesn’t have time.

Even God does not act like this; he always acts in harmony with the other two persons, but each has his unmistakable role. The world and the entire universe are primarily made up of God the Father, always in the presence of the Son and the Spirit. The Son suffered mainly on the cross, but not without the Father and the Spirit. And the comforter after Pentecost is the Spirit, but always in harmony with the Father and the Son. Likewise, in a functioning family, everyone has an unmistakable role, and a fool wants absolute equality between man and woman because man and woman have different physiologies. In some activities, women and in some men are better. And why is that so? Well, so that they complement each other, so that they don’t think that a person alone is enough for everything. Even God is not in eternal solitude, but a community of persons, and created us just like that.

Yes, even God the Father has a slightly different role than God the Son and the Holy Spirit, as well as every member in a functioning family. Here, too, a man has a specific role, a woman a particular role, and children a specific role. These tasks overlap, just like in God’s Trinity, but we are more skilled at something and less at something.

And why is that so? Well, precisely because we are essentially relational beings, and what is most important is the relationships we have with each other. And not only with each other, but also with our God, who is already intrinsically related in himself, because he is a community of persons. This closes a circle with neither a beginning nor an end, because what makes a person what he is, and what makes him permanently happy? This is precisely his relations to God, himself, and his neighbors, because nothing or money can permanently satisfy a person, only relations that he either actively lives, or non-living.

After all, the commandment of love speaks about it, which is not here to trample us, but to fulfill our lives, already here on earth, and reads: Love the Lord your God above all and your neighbor as yourself. And why God above all else? Well, because He already has that relationship full of love for himself, how? Well, because there is a community of people who love each other with a passion that we cannot imagine. With God, even the biggest secrets are simple; only we humans sometimes complicate them completely unnecessarily.

And what is important about today’s celebration? God’s Trinity is not here to complicate our lives, but to show us that what is essential in life is the kind of relationships a person has. To have a proper relationship with myself, I could also poison myself, but to be healthy, I need to be demanding both of myself and of those close to me. So that I don’t manipulate others, because even God doesn’t do it, but also so that I don’t drag the others out of the Brenda when they have the opportunity to help themselves. Even God does not do it that way, because God the Father could be both a creator and a redeemer and thus also a comforter and could say to the Son and the Spirit: leave it to me, I can do everything myself. He could do it, but he wanted them to share in his reign. That’s right, and a fool is one who, for example, does everything himself in his own family and then wonders that the family or parish does not work. He can’t because it makes a big difference if I have a hand in the matter and appreciate it much more than if I come to it blind to the violin.

And what is most important. How I try to live relationships already here on earth significantly impacts whether I want to enter the kingdom of God, because what is the essence of God’s kingdom? Growing into a full-fledged relationship with the Trinity God and with all those already in God’s glory, we should learn that already here on earth. Not to absorb the other, to manipulate him, but to take him, but also ourselves with the differences we have, to help and complement each other, to be healthy demanding, on the one hand, on each other, but also to those around you, not to be afraid of sacrifices and thereby grow into God’s trinity love, which already has that perfect relationship in itself.

And so, Lord, we thank you for not being eternally alone, for being more of a relationship than a person and yourself, offering us a relationship, both with you and with each other, to grow into all relationships.