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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