Let us learn to act in the name of the Holy Trinity in our lives

Let’s try to imagine what the Holy Trinity looks like. What does the Father look like, as the Son, and as the Holy Spirit? So what, did it work? Perhaps we had before our eyes an old grandfather sitting on some kind of throne, next to him sits a young man in his prime, and above them flies a bird, like a dove. Or we saw a large triangle from which a large eye looks at us. These are probably the most common images or depictions of the Holy Trinity that we have known since childhood. But let’s think again and try to imagine our image of the Holy Trinity. Something that would be ours and not observed.

I think we’re all on the same page. Somehow we are not succeeding, we are not working. Can’t we do it? St. Augustine was also troubled by this idea that what about the Trinity? What it looks like, how is it possible, that it is one essence and there are three persons in it, and what are the relationships between them? He thought about it a lot. Once, thinking about the Holy Trinity, he was walking along the beach and saw a little boy playing there. When he came closer to him, he saw that the little boy was carrying water from the sea and pouring it into a hole he had dug in the sand. Then he ran to the sea again, scooped up, poured, and ran off again and… “What are you doing?” he asked. And the little boy replied, “I’m pouring the sea into this hole.” Augustine knew that this was impossible, so he said to the boy, “But you will never succeed.” Then he received this answer: “I will sooner pour the sea into this hole than you will comprehend the Holy Trinity.”

The Lord Jesus reminds us that “when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will lead you into all truth” (Jn 16:13), that we will be able to understand the Holy Trinity more. If St. Augustine didn’t succeed, we would hardly have succeeded. Although dogmatics can say at least something about it, talking about how the Father begets the Son and from them, the Holy Spirit proceeds is useless, because it is also quite difficult, and it is not so necessary for the salvation of man. We can therefore ask, “What can the Holy Trinity give us, the people of our time?”

From these dogmas, we know that the Trinity consists of three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. We know of the Father that He created the world, and He ever created all that exists. Just as the Father created the world, so we create the world around us. The Father created, that is, created from nothing, something. We can’t do that, but we can create, which means, something that is, transform it into something else. We can say that what happens in our vicinity is also influenced by us. Consider only such a basis of our being – family. We all live in a family environment, everyone has their family members. Whether it is a father, mother, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, cousins, uncles, aunts… or those born later – grandchildren or even great-grandchildren. Since we are family members, we have the power to influence the family atmosphere. Thanks to us, it can be more cheerful or nervous at home, also thanks to us, love or hostility, laughter or crying, smile or anger can prevail at home. It takes so little to do what the Father did when He created the world. Every time He did something, He looked at how we read Sacred Scripture “and saw that it was good.” All too often, we may do things we don’t even look after, regret later, and then have to suffer the consequences. “My father is angry with me, my husband doesn’t talk to me, my mother-in-law hates me, my son-in-law doesn’t even come to see me…” And maybe it takes so little to look at our actions before letting them go. And to say, “Yes, it’s good.” Then we don’t have to worry about it creaking in our family.

The Son Jesus said of Himself, “I have not come to be served, but to serve.” As we know, people loved Jesus, Heaven did not look at himself, but he always had his gaze fixed on the one who needed help, and advice. Brothers and sisters, how are we? What is our priority? Your good or the good of your neighbor? So it is clear that we must first take care of ourselves to feel good, only then we can take care of others. This, in turn, no one can say that his neighbor is more important to him than himself. That could perhaps be treated. But are we willing to do something for the one next to me? And this is without distinction of skin color, gender, speech… Jesus doesn’t want much, but he wants willingness. And when there is willingness, everything will be.

What about the Holy Spirit, which has multiple names? Sanctifier or Comforter. We do not have such a power of sanctification, but the power to comfort, which each of us has. A mother comforts her little children when they cry to her that something happened to them. The teacher pleases schoolchildren that the second letter will correct this, or that they can go to answer and thus correct a bad grade, the doctor, pleases patients that his health is not so bad that he has to look at the catalog of tombstones. But very often he knows and can please an ordinary smile, a few warm words in the address of someone who is not doing well. A little attention from a husband to his beloved wife. The willingness of children to help at home with cleaning, washing dishes, vacuuming… a visit to a sick person in the hospital who is there alone, or just a friendly visit from a friend. But everyone knows that you don’t need much for a nicer day. Instead of shouting at subordinates in the morning, the head of the company chooses to wish them a beautiful and cheerful day. Instead of exclaiming in the morning, “Get up and move, go to school,” Mom wishes good morning. When leaving for work, instead of “Have fun,” the husband gives a kiss on the cheek to his wife. And this is how one could talk indefinitely. Everyone knows what pleases those around him.

There is a tremendous indescribable love between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is not so often between us, but probably more often it is the opposite of that love. Being kind to your loved ones is easy, anyone can do that, even a little boy likes the one who gives him candy. But there are not only those in the world who suit us, and it is probably the case that there are more of those whom we would send somewhere easier, but this is not what God wants from us. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are each different, yet they are one. We are also different and yet we are one humanity. And not just one, but one humanity. I know, one thing is to say “love yourself” and the other is to do it. And I know that it is not always possible, but there are many ways to prevent conflicts, quarrels and so eternal disagreements between persons. Maybe just bite my tongue at the right time and keep a note to yourself, or not look for what bothers me in a person, but try to find what is positive in him or about him. And there is no such person who does not have something good in himself, because we are all created in the image of God, and God cannot be the embodiment of evil.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, let us try to look at people at least a little differently than before, especially those who get on our nerves, on whom we find it difficult to find kind words. Our surroundings will be free of tension, quarrels, intolerance, and love, joy, and smile will begin to prevail. And that’s what we’re going to live with then. You just need to start first. I wish you to always and everywhere be able to give this smile and joy so that you can enjoy beautiful relationships at home, in families, at work, at school, on the street, city or village, in words everywhere. And so we will all imitate the love lived by the Holy Trinity.