Thursday, May 26, 2016

TRINITY SUNDAY 2016

Andrei Rublev' s  "Icon of the Holy Trinity:  (1425)

TRINITY SUNDAY  2016

When considering the Trinity, Saint Ignatius in the Spiritual Exercises instructs us to view the triune God on the throne of Heaven.  See the Divine Persons looking at us human beings and at all of the sin and sadness that overwhelm us, hearing how we speak ugly words to one another and so on.   And likewise hear what the Divine Persons are saying, “Let us work the redemption of the human race.”    And see what the Divine Persons are doing, that is, working out the Most Holy Incarnation. 

Ignatius is clear in the Exercises that we should place ourselves in scenes like this not simply as journalists looking for a story. Rather here in this meditation each person should imagine that the scene of the Divine Persons takes place simply for him or her even if he or she were absolutely alone on this difficult earth.   I imagine that there are human beings of over-sized egos who wish to be first and consider themselves worthy of God’s undivided attention.  But even for the shy person such attention becomes welcome when understood as available to anyone in search of meaning.

An analogy:  If I thought, for example, that Google’s investment in talented personnel and billion-dollar infrastructure was made simply for the unlimited use of my own gmail account, I might be a little embarrassed and say something like “You really shouldn’t have gone to all this trouble.”  But there are 900 million of us with the same unlimited access to this investment.  You go, Google!


OK, God.  Look me over, save me, give me unlimited access.   I readily join with the love that you share with everyone in the human race.

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