Sunday, May 27, 2018

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit!!!!!!

 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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