Pope Benedict’s Angelus and Homilies about the
Holy Trinity
God is not solitude, but perfect
communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself
or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.
Thanks to the Holy Spirit, who helps us
understand Jesus' words and guides us to the whole truth, believers can
experience, so to speak, the intimacy of God himself, discovering that he is
not infinite solitude but communion of light and love, life given and received
in an eternal dialogue between the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit
We turn our gaze, so to speak, towards
"the open Heavens", to enter with the eyes of faith into the depths
of the mystery of God, one in substance and three in Persons: Father, Son and
Holy Spirit.
In God's gift of himself in the Person of
the Son the whole of the Trinity is at work.
It is the Father who places at our disposal what is dearest to him; the Son who, consenting to the Father, empties himself of his glory in order to give himself to us; the Spirit who leaves the peace of the divine embrace to water the deserts of humanity.
It is the Father who places at our disposal what is dearest to him; the Son who, consenting to the Father, empties himself of his glory in order to give himself to us; the Spirit who leaves the peace of the divine embrace to water the deserts of humanity.
The God of the Bible is not some kind of
monad closed in on itself and satisfied with his own self-sufficiency but he is
life that wants to communicate itself, openness, relationship.
The strongest proof that we are made in
the image of the Trinity is this: love alone makes us happy because we live in
a relationship, and we live to love and to be loved. Borrowing an analogy from
biology, we could say that imprinted upon his "genome", the human
being bears a profound mark of the Trinity, of God as Love.
This Sunday of the Most Holy Trinity, in a
certain sense sums up God's revelation which was brought about through the
Paschal Mysteries: Christ's death and Resurrection, his Ascension to the right
hand of the Father and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
God did not show his face, but rather
revealed his being, full of goodness, with these words: “The Lord, the Lord, a
merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and
faithfulness” (Ex 34:6). This is the Face of God. This self-definition of God
expresses his merciful love: a love that triumphs over sin, covers it,
eliminates it. We can always be sure of this goodness which does not abandon
us. There can be no clearer revelation. We have a God who refuses to destroy
sinners and wants to show his love in an even more profound and surprising way
to sinners themselves, in order to always offer them the possibility of
conversion and forgiveness.
God created us male and female, equal in
dignity, but also with respective and complementary characteristics, so that
the two might be a gift for each other, might value each other and might bring
into being a community of love and life. It is love that makes the human person
the authentic image of the Blessed Trinity, image of God.
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