Holy Trinity Homily

We all have the desire to be loved. We see this desire play itself out each and every single day with the many choices and desires that we have. These choices and desires, both good or bad, are made because we secretly have the desire inside to be loved. To be loved or to give to another out of love is a good thing, but of course we can easily misuse this most healthy of desires and end up twisting it for our own gain to the point where we become trapped within our actions. In the misuse of love we can quickly become slaves to something within this world or we can use the concept of love to mask the desire to lower another's humanity to the point where we cease to see them as a human who was made in the image and likeness of God. True love is never about only me without true concern for others. Instead true love is the ability to enter into total, unconditional, service to others. Through the Holy Trinity we are truly able to discover the fact that God is love.

This desire to be loved is seen throughout our lives, but maybe we do not realize that is what we are actually in search of. I think we can easily see this if we glance into some of the things which are springing up as the norm of what is acceptable within our society. In each of these "so called" norms what we find is people who are in search of love, but in the end find nothing more then a path that leads them towards an exclusion of others and thus into pure loneliness. And so what are these "so called" norms that are ever growing in our society and maybe within our own life and how are these "so called" norms leading us towards a false sense of love? This is a good question for us to spend time reflecting upon because in our discovery of this answer we will be able to see how it is love that we are actually attempting to discover. We don't actually want to be trapped in a false sense of love, but instead we have the longing that exists inside to be loved and to also love. Again, within the Holy Trinity we see that God is love.

So many advertisements that we see on television attempt to sell this false sense of love. They promise that their product will make you happy, will attract the opposite sex to you in droves, and will earn you a lot of friends. Advertisers are very smart because they are speaking to our inward desire to be loved and they want us to believe that their product can earn us this love that we are in search for. An issue for our modern day society has become the use of pornography which through its gratifications never brings us to discover the love of another, but instead leaves us in a false sense of love which leads us towards loneliness and the abuse of others for one's own gratification. This gratification of another and reality of loneliness can even seep into marriage; where one is unable to forgive and unable to change for the good of their spouse. We even see many couples living together outside of marriage and even entering into the sexual act with one another, but these couples never discover the real love they desire. We must combat these notions of looking at love in such a fragmented way and begin to discover it through the wholeness of love that can only be found within the Holy Trinity.

 

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity which is a celebration of the reality of true love. Within the Holy Trinity we will discover the love that we desire because in this love we will realize that it will not lead us towards loneliness, the abuse of others, or ourself. Instead this love that is found within the Trinity will open the way towards happiness and true liberation to live as someone who has been created in the image and likeness of God. The Trinity is able to elevate every human love because it is the meaning of love. In the teaching of the Holy Trinity we know that there are three persons in one God. Understanding this teaching is most important because through this statement we are able to profess that the Trinity is not about the self infatuation of an individual, it is not about only being enamored with only one person, but instead with three persons we are able to see a love that is both mutual and sharing. In this image of the Trinity we see a love that is most true because it is constantly pouring itself out for another.

The Holy Trinity is the love that we desire to find and share within. The Trinity shows that authentic love is more then the clothing or items that we posses. The Trinity shows that using another for one's self gratification is not actually entering into true love. The Trinity shows the importance of Holy Matrimony and how it is something that is creative, mutual, and life long. In The Trinity we see that God the Father loves the Son so much that He allowed Him to be brought into this world. In the Trinity we see that God the Son loved the Father so much that He allowed all of His words to reflect His great glory. In the Trinity we see that God the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father as a reflection of this great love that is found between the Father and the Son. The love of the Trinity is so deep that we are able to come to the great conclusion that God is love. Here we are able to see that our whole life is about the giving of ourself out of love and thus truly sharing within the life of the Most Holy Trinity.