Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (A)

June 7, 2020

Note:

Dear brothers and sisters,

Peace and all good!

Sorry, for I was not able to send you the Homily last Sunday, May 31, Feast of the Pentecost, the birth of the Church and new found faith in Jesus Christ, because I was brought to the hospital last May 26 due to low blood and weak body.  I have to have a blood transfusion, 6 plastic bags of blood to e injected to my body to regain my strength.  I was only discharged last June 3.  Thanks be to God, He still gives me chances to serve you through though this Sunday Homily – the Word of God during Sunday Mass!!

Your humble servant,

Fr. Eufrosino (Yosi) Solibar, OFM

Readings:

First Reading: Exodus 34: 4b-6, 8-9

Daniel 3 “Glory and praise forever!”

Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13

Gospel reading according to John 3: 16-18

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Homily: God′s love to the world

Today we celebrate the Most Holy Trinity; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit; One God in Three Persons.  Without the Others, it is not complete God, or if He is alone still He is incomplete; The One and the Others though they are three, it remains One God.  To complete the Holy Trinity they must be Three in Persons, but untied as One God.  

The love of God the Father given to the world was reflected in his love to his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ and shared by the Holy Spirit. “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life” (John 3: 16).  The world is the center of the activities of God.  He created the world and everything that was in it for the love of Jesus.  On the one hand, He created us, humans, and placed in this world to give glory and honor to the Son of God and to God the Father.  Although, we, humans, are not for this world yet we are here as pilgrims and strangers in this world.  On the other hand, Jesus loved us, his own. So, also God the Father loved and still loves us as well.  Therefore, He loves the world because Jesus loved the world and all creatures in it; he was ready to suffer and to die for the sake of the world.  He knows the world and he knows us.  Because of this knowledge, God the Father gave his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to the world.  The world must know also Jesus Christ as its Savior and Redeemer.  It must give its allegiance to Jesus, and in order to live in this world and have eternal life, the world must believe in him.

The love of God to the world is measured by sending his only Son, the humility of incarnation, to the world to save the world covered with darkness and be brought to light and life, for He is Light and Life.  “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world might be saved through him” (John 3: 17).  After creating the world good, man and woman and animal serpent committed disobedience to God′s will.  They violated God′s command.  But God the Father is patient.  He waited long and hard if his creatures will change and go back to its original nature, which is good, very good.  But the human creatures and the animal serpent remained stupor and continued doing sins in front of the loving God the Father.  In the end, in the fullness of time, God the Father sent his only begotten Son not to punish the world but to save the world from sins, because God loved the world.  The God the Son came not to condemn the world but to save the world through Him.  And He did, he endured suffering, passion, crucifixion, death on the Cross to save us all, a love of the passion.

Furthermore, he made promised even before he endured pain and suffering and after his resurrection and before he ascended into heaven, to send God the Holy Spirit, the Advocate, to guide us and strengthen us and to teach us about what Jesus said and did.  “Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God” (John 3: 18).  Anyone who believe and have faith in him will not be condemned, but be given eternal life, life to the fullest.  The opposite of this, which is unbelief, anyone who does not believe in his name has already been condemned for he or she is worldly, who loves the world rather than the One who created the world, the Most Holy Trinity.