Bishop Enrique Díaz Díaz shares with Exaudi readers his reflection on the Gospel of this Sunday, June 15, 2025, entitled:  “The Holy Trinity . ”

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Proverbs 8:22-31:  “Before the earth existed, wisdom was conceived.”

Psalm 8:  “How marvelous, Lord, is your power!”

Romans 5:1-5:  “Let us come to God through Christ through the love that the Holy Spirit has given us.”

John 16:12-15:  “All that the Father has is mine. The Spirit will receive from me what he will communicate to you.”

What is the image of modern man? We have created an image of man mired in unconsciousness, in stench and filth, very different from the one presented to us today in the psalm:  “O Lord our God, you made man a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor; you gave him dominion over the works of your hands and put all things under his feet.”  Is this the man the Lord dreamed of? Is this the image of the God of love, the God of community, the God of family that we celebrate today? Certainly not. It is not the ideal of man that God desires. Man has prostituted himself and abandoned the image for which he was destined. He has abandoned God’s plan and, blinded by selfishness, has distorted the image of God and himself.

How right are those who have said that man has become a wolf to man, attacking, devouring, and destroying his fellow man, while simultaneously destroying the nature entrusted to him. We have experienced it firsthand in recent days, how our communities have been besieged and besieged by drug trafficking and how they end up being annihilated. Young people, families, children—all are distressed. But this is nothing more than a consequence of the direction the world has taken. It believes only in strength, money, and power. But in the end, man finds himself alone, abandoned, and has lost his way. Wanting to forget God, he ends up forgetting his own destiny and forgetting his own image. How painful it is to contemplate man in all his misery, lost and his ideals lost.

The Trinity is the beautiful interior relationship of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each a distinct person, each a different person, and yet all one God. They give each other, they receive each other, and one cannot be understood without the other. The revelation of God as a Trinitarian mystery constitutes the fundamental and structuring core of the entire New Testament message. The mystery of the Holy Trinity, which we celebrate today with great solemnity, has been a saving event before it is a doctrine. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have always been present in the history of humanity, giving life and communicating their love; introducing and transforming the course of history into the divine communion of the Three Persons.

On this day, the feast of the Holy Trinity, I do not wish to dwell on theological speculations that lead us to discover the relationship of the three persons in a single essence. I would like us to contemplate this God of family, Trinity, and communication, and to experience his love and his invitation to share in the same life. Our appreciation and image of ourselves and our brothers and sisters will depend on our image and experience of God.

There are many who, calling themselves “religious,” “Christians,” or any other denomination, live a sad and meaningless life. They have a dull and distant idea of ​​God. For them, God would be a nebulous, gray, “faceless” god. Something impersonal, cold, and indifferent. And if we try to tell them that God is “Trinity,” they will make a gesture of anger, of a meaningless tangle that has nothing to do with their lives. And yet, in all its depth, without wanting to explain, it is the experience of the close God that Jesus presents to us. The mystery is not the darkness, but the love and life that Jesus shows us there is in God.

God is not a solitary being condemned to be closed in on himself, but rather an interpersonal communion, a joyful communication of life. God is family. God is shared life, communal love, a communion of persons. Therefore, the person who lives the experience of God cannot isolate himself, close his heart to his brothers and sisters, and die of narcissism while contemplating himself. If a person closes himself off from others, he cannot tell us that he has experienced God. Because this God is not distant from us; he is at the very roots of our life and our being. In him we live, move, and have our being.

 To believe in the Trinity is to believe that the origin, the model, and the ultimate destiny of all life is love shared in fraternity. If we are made in the image and likeness of God, we will not rest until we can enjoy that shared love and find ourselves in that “family,” in which each person can be fully themselves, happy in self-giving and total solidarity with one another. We celebrate the Trinity when we joyfully discover that the source of our life is a God-family, a God-community, and when we feel called from the depths of our being to seek our true happiness in sharing, in love, in fraternity. We are called to be the image of God today.

How sad it would be if, on this day of the Trinity, we were left alone and chained to our selfishness. We must open our hearts and eyes to experience and make others experience this God of love. May many questions arise within each of us: How can I make the “communal” nature of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, more clearly reflected in my Christian life? In what specific aspects of my life is the mystery of the Trinitarian God as love and life manifested? How could I open myself more to the action of the Spirit of Truth in my life, so that He may lead me to an existential and actualized knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus?

Lord God, Eternal, One, and True, infinite mystery of love and life, Most Holy Trinity, make humanity created in your image one family, a leaven of unity and peace for all mankind. Amen.