On Pentecost Sunday, we celebrated the culmination,
cause of, and reason for what we do every day as the Body of
Christ. Jesus' saving death and resurrection reconciles us to the Father, and
the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit, which the Father and the Son lovingly
lavish upon us, all make it possible for us to become and to live as true sons
and daughters of God. Just as St. Peter writes in his second letter, we now
"share in the Divine Nature" of God (2 Peter 1:4). This realization should
render us awestruck and breathless! We can now be as intimate with the Father as
Jesus is with Him!
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| Holy Trinity, fresco by Luca Rossetti da Orta, 1738–39 |
We live in a world of increasing division and conflict, and where our
attention to such things as our virtual email and texting relationships is
keeping us from loving those who are physically with us, the ones whom God has
given us to love, and who need us in the here and now.
As we contemplate the
perfect unity of love of the Holy Trinity this Sunday, let us remember that our
partaking in the Divine Nature means we are no longer our own, because we have
been redeemed at a great price, and now belong to God, body and soul (see 1
Corinthians 6:19-20). And as temples of the Holy Spirit, we have all the power,
all the grace we need to live out this calling, this blessed life of abiding in
His love and of bestowing that love upon one another, here and now! This is the
true joy of the Gospel!
