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Notes:
Notes:
Holy Trinity
It is pretty cool as we have been in Ordinary time since last Sunday evening until now, but right after Easter we have some “desert”: Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi
Today, I would offer a few thoughts for God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit
· In one way, I would like to present two charisms that I spoke about last weekend: knowledge, wisdom and faith
· 1.) Knowledge and wisdom—as you listen to the readings, you can definitely learn both with the readings and Mass itself as many of the prayers and liturgy are from the Scriptures
· 2.) History
o The Creed—check it out, try it to sit down for a while and read it slowly
o Sometimes our society thinks that we—or at least the elite—are the smartest people on earth
o Jesus—God and Man, then the Holy Spirit, with brilliant philosophers as these individuals were not spending time on screen time 8 hours a day!
o And our belief took centuries
· 3.) Buying a field and in the middle of it is a fence. Why gut something out when it may be deeper than your knowledge?
o I consider that most of us pastors have been taught to wait one year before changing big things, so we can learn and grow why things are the way they are at their parishes?
Now, Faith
· 1.) Do you believe this paradox?
o Creed—we do proclaim this every weekend Mass
· 2.) Personally, I love to think, think, think and why not? But at the end of the day, faith is a supernatural virtue, believing something beyond our physical world
o But faith and reason couples each other
· 3.) Faith = believing what our Church has discerned for centuries
Finally, Scriptures
· 1.) I love experiencing the taste of encouraging my faith in the Scriptures
o Just soak in the first reading
o Proverbs: "When the Lord established the heavens I was there,
when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep;
when he made firm the skies above,
when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth;
when he set for the sea its limit,
so that the waters should not transgress his command;
then was I beside him as his craftsman,
and I was his delight day by day,
playing before him all the while,
playing on the surface of his earth;
and I found delight in the human race."
when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep;
when he made firm the skies above,
when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth;
when he set for the sea its limit,
so that the waters should not transgress his command;
then was I beside him as his craftsman,
and I was his delight day by day,
playing before him all the while,
playing on the surface of his earth;
and I found delight in the human race."
o Or the first verse in the whole Bible: Genesis 1:1-3: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light”
o Or in the Gospel according to John
§ Father, Son, and Spirit—throughout the book
o Finally, Matthew 28:18-20: “And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.”
God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three persons in one God: a paradox, and fun but also challenging to stretch our knowledge and faith beyond our world
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