YEAR B: HOMILY OF THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
HOMILY THEME: GOD IS COMMUNION
BY: Fr. Justus Oruma Oruh
Deuteronomy 4:32-34.39-40; Romans 8:14-17; Matthew 28:16-20
(a) The Blessed Trinity simply tells of the deep loving communion and fellowship between God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit as is written in 2. Corinthians, and as we say in prayers: “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit..be with you”
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(b) …”be with you”. We are products of the communion and of the sweet fellowship among the Three Persons in One God. This is seen clear in the Book of Genesis at the creation of man. God said, “LET US make man in our own image and likeness”. We are products of the Teamspirit among the Three Persons in one God. We are born again, given a “new birth” through Baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit as we learn in the Gospel. Baptism brings us to participate in the communion and in the sweet fellowship of God and in the community of His Church. We are always blessed in the name of the Trinity- Father, Son and Holy Spirit and sign ourselves with the sign of the cross in the name of the Three. We are in these ways formed in the image of the Trinity and made to live in communion and in sweet fellowship with one another.
(c) The human live is fundamentally a communion taken from the Trinity. It is unfortunate that this communion is wanting among many families, communities, homes and even among married people. Marriage ought to depict relatively the communion of the Blessed Trinity among humans. Unfortunately too, many homes live in bitter relationships.The fundamental thing, the greatest mystery through which and for which the human being is made, namely: “a communion of sweet fellowship” is destroyed every now and then in homes. How good a house is, when it lives in communion and fellowship among the “persons” of the house, as the Psalm says. There we see not simply a communion but a sweet fellowship. Our thought also goes to people rejected in homes and societies where they found themselves due to hatred, racism and colour. The reading says we are all Children of God, born from the communion and of the sweet fellowship of God. May God remove bitter relationship among us, May the Blessed Trinity strengthen the Teamspirit and communion in our homes. May He make our unity a sweet fellowship.
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