What is God’s innermost secret?
Catechism Meditation:
“God is love”: God’s very being is love. By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret: God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange. ―No. 221
REFLECTION: In his homily posted on Catholic For Life, Fr. Mike Lagrimas said… So, this mystery teaches us who God really is. And at the same time, we come to know and discover the truth of who we really are. Pope St. John Paul II said: “In the communion of grace with the Trinity, man’s ‘living area’ is broadened and raised up to the supernatural level of divine life. Man lives in God and by God.”
We cannot fully comprehend this truth, for this is the most profound and ineffable mystery of our faith. But still God revealed His innermost secret to us, not to overwhelm us with His unfathomable mystery, but to invite us to share in His inner Life. Our task, then, is not to fully comprehend this mystery, for that would be clearly impossible, but to imitate the lifestyle of the Divine Family of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Then we will discover and experience total and perfect happiness.
In the Book of Genesis, God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Gen 2:18). He does not want us to be lonely. That is why the Second Person, Jesus Christ, became man and revealed to us the innermost secret of God. And he invites us to share in God’s eternal life and love. The only way towards solid unity and lasting happiness is to model our lives after the example of the Holy Trinity, living our families and communities in mutual and constant exchange of love. Each time we make the sign of the cross, let us express our faith in the Most Holy Trinity, and let it always be a prayer that we may become living reflections of the love and unity of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
PRAYER. O Lord, help us recognize the gift of Your love and mercy as it is expressed most profoundly in the mystery of the Trinity.
Timeless Wisdom Quote:
“The Trinity is the answer to the questions of Plato. If there is only one God, what does He think about? He thinks an eternal thought, or about His Eternal Son. If there is only one God, whom does He love? He loves His Son, and that mutual love is the Holy Spirit. I firmly believe that the great philosopher was fumbling about for the mystery of the Trinity, for his great mind seemed in some small way to suspect that an infinite being must have relations of thought and love, and that God cannot be conceived without thought and love. But it was not until the word became Incarnate that man knew the secret of those relations and the inner life of God.” ― Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen