“Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own,
but only what he sees the Father doing; for what he does, the Son
will do also. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything
that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than
these, so that you may be amazed.” John 5:25–26
The most central and most glorious mystery of our faith is that of
the Most Holy Trinity. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one
God yet three distinct Persons. As divine “Persons,” each one is
distinct; but as one God, each Person acts in perfect union with
the others. In today’s Gospel, Jesus clearly identifies the Father
in Heaven as His Father and clearly states that He and His Father
are one. For this reason, there were those who wanted to kill Jesus
because He “called God his own father, making himself equal to
God.”
The sad reality is that the greatest and most glorious truth of
God’s inner life, the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, was one of
the primary reasons that some chose to hate Jesus and sought His
life. Clearly, it was their ignorance of this glorious truth that
drove them to this hatred.
We call the Holy Trinity a “mystery,” not because they cannot be
known but because our knowledge of Who They are can never be fully
understood. For eternity, we will enter deeper and deeper into our
knowledge of the Trinity and be “amazed” on a continually deepening
level.
One additional aspect of the mystery of the Trinity is that each
one of us is called to share in Their very life. We will forever
remain distinct from God; but, as many of the early Church Fathers
liked to say, we must become “divinized,” meaning, we must share in
God’s divine life through our union of body and soul with Christ
Jesus. That union also unites us with the Father and the Spirit.
This truth should also leave us “amazed,” as we read in the passage
above.
As we continue to read this week from the Gospel of John and
continue to ponder the mysterious and profound teaching of Jesus on
His relationship with the Father in Heaven, it is essential that we
not simply gloss over the mysterious language Jesus uses. Rather,
we must prayerfully enter the mystery and allow our penetration of
this mystery to leave us truly amazed. Amazement and transforming
edification is the only good response. We will never fully
understand the Trinity, but we must allow the truth of our Triune
God to take hold of us and enrichen us, at very least, in a way
that knows how much we do not know—and that knowledge leaves us in
awe.
Reflect, today, upon the sacred mystery of the Most Holy Trinity.
Pray that God reveals Himself more fully to your mind and more
completely consume your will. Pray that you will be able to share
deeply in the life of the Trinity so that you will be filled with a
holy amazement and awe.
Most holy and triune God, the love You share within Your very
being of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is beyond my comprehension.
The mystery of Your triune life is a mystery of the greatest
degree. Draw me in, dear Lord, to the life You share with Your
Father and the Holy Spirit. Fill me with wonder and awe as You
invite me to share in Your divine life. Most Holy Trinity, I trust
in You.
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