Readings and meditation on the Word of God on Sunday, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, June 15, 2025

Delivered by Christine Gunawan from the Parish of Saint Joseph Cathedral in the Archdiocese of Pontianak and Yurika Gunawan from Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in the Archdiocese of Makassar, Indonesia. THE TRIUNE GOD The title for our meditation today,the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity is: The Triune God. There was a discussionamong the faithful after their group gathered for the devotional prayer of theRosary. The focus of the discussion was about the meaning of the Holy Trinity.Everyone had an explanation and the argument to support it. When the discussionwas over, they did not find the true meaning of the Trinity. An 80-year-oldwoman who during the discussion was just silent and listening, finally saidsomething as the following: "We keep asking about the meaning of the HolyTrinity, the answer must not be obtained now, or maybe you don't need to knoweither. The important thing is we can call the Trinity by Their holy names andjust believe it." The common difficulty of believers isthat they do not know and understand well enough on how or what the Trinity islike. The name of “One God of Three Persons” is in our memory. We say His namein prayers and worship. We celebrate His solemnity and feast. We have believedin Him since His name was pronounced at the moment of Baptism and strengthenedby Him in Confirmation. But our knowledge is limited about Him. We have heardand studied here and there, still we are not satisfied. How or what the circumstances are,cooperation between the Three persons as the One God are the things that arenot fully known by any human being. There are no specific scriptures andtraditions account about them. We only know some details of each of the Three.That's because Jesus Himself says and teaches this in the gospel. He says thatit is a great mystery of our faith, that is, the unity of the Trinity whichcannot be separated. His job is to reveal the glory of God to us: God theFather, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and to unite all of us with God in acommunion of love. The communion of love in the world is the Church. Our final goal as believers is toenter the perfect unity in the eternal glory of the Holy Trinity. The missionof Jesus and the Holy Spirit is the same, because Jesus says to the disciplesand all of us that the Holy Spirit will teach us in all truth. This means thetruth about God, the great mystery of the holy Trinity. If we don't get acomplete answer now, only partially, maybe we don't even need it, it's okay.Later we will get it in time. The important thing is that we cannot lose ourfaith and loyalty to the holy Trinity that we love.Let's pray. In the name of theFather ... O most Holy Trinity, may God the Father protect and fulfill us withall mercy, may the Son of God unite and save us as a flock of Your belovedpeople, and may God the Holy Spirit continue to teach and illuminate us in alltruth about the greatness of your glory. Glory to the Father and to the Son andto the Holy Spirit  ... In the name ofthe Father…