God is not
an idea but an experience. To speak of God as Trinity in an abstract way, even
finding the most fascinating and convincing arguments, risks not getting
anything and taking away from the path of the Gospel. In the
first centuries of the history of the Church much has been discussed and
deepened to understand who God is as Jesus had shown: God is One and
Triune, the only God in three Persons,? Trinity of Persons, the unity of
nature, the equality in the divine majesty?. The Creed we profess every Sunday, is the result of a long
process of understanding by the Councils that brought together and
then also reconcile bishops and Christian communities throughout the world. It
really took centuries to arrive at a unitary definition of this profound
identity of God the Trinity. And it is that definition of the Creed that we
recite.
But the Trinity
is not just a concept, but it is primarily a life experience, which is
understood precisely in life lived and not so much in a reasoning at the table. The Gospel
according to Matthew this Sunday tells us about the risen Jesus who gives the
last fundamental instructions to his apostles. And they are instructions that
as an address of personal life and as a church are also intact for us today. Jesus sends his disciples, sets them in motion. It
is therefore never time to stand still on themselves, it is not time to raise
barriers to defense, it is not time to consolidate territorial gains, it is not
time to count how many we are in the group and to stand out from others. It is
time to go, to create bonds and to baptize. The word is to baptize? it should be
understood not as a simple ritual invitation, but in its main meaning, which is
to "immerse". Does baptism mean "immersion", and the
purpose of the mission of the disciples is that the whole world is immersed? in
God, Father Son, Holy Spirit, just as God himself has immersed himself? in the
world with Jesus
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