2020 has been an interesting year. We began in the usual manner of celebrating New Year’s Day. Here we had many anticipations concerning what our life would be like in the year ahead. Quickly many of those anticipations and plans began to unravel before our sight. One of those areas where things came to tumbling down was graduation plans. Our parish school will come to celebrate its’ graduation on August 15th which is a fitting day for a Marian school for this is the day of the Solemnity of the Assumption. Today we have the opportunity to gather with our graduating seniors to celebrate this great accomplishment in their life. May we continue to pray for each of them, that as they head onto the next stage of their life, that they may always keep the flame of faith shining brightly.
Today we come to celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. No matter how much our life is changing around us may we remember that no change is found within the Trinity. The Trinity is the profession of one God in three Persons. Therefore, we have God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. As Trinity these three Persons of the one Godhead have always been. Difficulties have popped up in our life and we are constantly changing. We are especially changing when it pertains to our feelings. No matter how we feel or how much the world around us seems to be in fluctuation may we process and appreciate this unchanging reality of the Trinity.
As our seniors move onto their next stage in life it is important that you do not lose sight of God. There will continue to be temptations which will come your way which will attempt to pull you away from God. You will continue to be busy, but at the same time make time to be with the Lord. You will encounter those who want nothing to do with faith or truth. Do not follow after these voices of relativism, but follow after the truth which always brings us back into an encounter with God. Also, make sure to properly discern your vocation in this life. There are many who never listen to the voice of the Lord, but instead turn inwardly towards self. In marriages we see a perversion of love, but the perversion goes against that true outpouring of love that manifests itself within the Trinity.
As graduating seniors and for all of us we are called to emulate all that is found in the mystery of the Trinity. This is a life long journey which calls us to conversion. The Trinity leads us to love as we ought and leads us towards all truth. On this Trinity Sunday may each of us be further drawn into this encounter with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. From this life giving encounter may we be sent forth from here as true disciples of the Lord.
