Trinity Sunday • Year C
And so how can we live the Trinity in our daily lives? Be open to the Spirit. The Holy Spirit, as Paul says, pours love into our hearts. But we must make space through prayer, silence, and openness to grace. We must seek unity, not uniformity. Just as the Trinity is three distinct persons in perfect unity, our communities can be diverse yet united in love. We must reject gossip, division, and pride, and embrace patience, humility, and shared mission. We are also called to give ourselves away. The Father gives the Son. The Son gives Himself on the Cross. The Spirit gives us the love of God. Trinity is self-gift. When we give of our time, our compassion, our presence, we reflect the divine life.
First Sunday of Lent • Year B
Are we curious enough to enter into this Lenten season with open hearts and open minds, to hear the call to “repent, and believe in the gospel”? We enter into these forty days as a time of testing, of tribulation and purification. Any first-century Jew who heard this reading would’ve remembered the forty days and forty nights of the flood during the time of Noah. They would have also remembered the forty years of Israel in the desert; indeed a time of testing, tribulation and purification!