John 3: 16-18
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989, by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. USCCB approved.
Love Must Be Shared
Trinity Sunday has everything to do with our human vocation. To say we are made in the image and likeness of God is to say we are made for communion with one another. In the mystery of the Trinity, we see perfect relationship between and among Father, Son, and Spirit bound in love, giving themselves fully to one another.
The nature of love is that it overflows. In the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius invites us to imagine the divine gaze resting on the world, then choosing to enter our human story so that love might dwell among us in Jesus. In that act, God shows us what it means to live in communion: love is never content to be contained; it must be poured out, shared.
Today’s feast reminds us that our vocation is not to stand alone but to reflect God’s self-giving love in every encounter, bringing the life of the Trinity into the world.
—Fr. Martin Connell, SJ, serves as dean of Arrupe College at Loyola University Chicago.
Prayer
O Divine Trinity, you reveal yourself as a communion of love poured out. Grant me the grace to live in loving relationship, reflecting your generous, outward-flowing love in every encounter. Amen.
—Fr. Martin Connell, SJ