Sunday Trinity Cycle A chúa nhat 21-22 / 05 / 2005

My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

In Texas America, there was a man whom everyone called by the name: ‘the great Bill’. He was a very famous person and everyone called him by this title, and not many people really knew exactly what his name was. The great Bill was a man of kindness and generosity. Even though he was very wealthy, his life was closed to everyone. He was generous to anyone who was in need of help in the town. Everyone knew Bill for he was living a very simple and quiet life. Not long ago, on the holiday trip with his family, there was an accident and it killed his wife and his only son. Since then, he lived alone by himself. One day, as he was walking around his farm, he met a young boy who was very poor and lonely. The great Bill got closer to him and tried to ask him some questions related to his background, but the young boy was not answering him any thing. The young boy was an orphan from a time of his birth. As a young boy, he lived the life of a wanderer. The only thing he knew was his name for everyone called him Jimmy. That’s why he knew his name was Jimmy. The great Bill later adopted Jimmy as his son and took him into his house and raised him up there. He even wrote in his will that he would leave all of his wealth to Jimmy when he died. Many people were surprised and asked the great Bill why he was doing that? And he answered that there was only one reason, Jimmy is like my son. I love him because he looks like my dead son, and I see my own son in him.
My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, these words of the great Bill, ‘I love him, because he looks like my son. I see my own son in him,’ are some how reminding us of a good relationship that we own. That is the relationship between the love of God with each one of us who is the follower of Christ today. God loves each one of us for we have received the salvation and have been reborn in Christ who is God’s own Son. God loves us for he sees his own Son in us.
Celebrating the feast of The Trinity today, we are not celebrating the feast with a full knowledge of what the mystery of the Trinity is about, the mystery of the Trinity: one God in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But we celebrate the feast with our whole-hearts full of love. The Holy Trinity lives in us, and our hearts are full of love and compassion, when we recall their presence within us. Let us remember: the love of the Father, a creator, who always loves us and gives us our life. Let us remember the love of the Son, Jesus Christ, who is incarnated in the world and in a human body to save us, and to give us back the image of God in us, and bring us home to our Father. And let us remember the love of the Holy Spirit who gives us strength, wisdom and support so that we can live each day of our life to the full. And we can safely return home to the Kingdom of God. That is the message for us in celebrating of the feast of Trinity today.

The challenge for us as we continue to reflect the feast of trinity throughout next week is that we are called to remember the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit love us and we are invited to respond to these loves by bearing great fruit of love in our lives and in the lives of the world we are living in.

Let us once more come to God and pray: Lord, God strengthen our faith and our love for you, so that we might become more like you each day of our lives. May the love of God be with you always. Amen.