Today,
we celebrate the solemnity of the mystery at the center of our faith,
where everything originates from and where everything returns to. The
mystery of the unity and of God, and at the same time, his
subsistence in three equal and yet, different Persons. The Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit: unity in communion and communion
in unity. In this great day, we must realize that his great
mystery is ever present in our lives: from the very Sacrament of our
Baptism —which we have received in the name of the Holy
Trinity— till our participation in the mystery of the
Eucharist, which is made for the glory of the Father, by his Son
Jesus Christ, thanks to the Holy Spirit. And it is also the signal by
which we Christians recognize one another: the sign of the Cross, in
the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
The
mission of the Son, Jesus Christ, consists in the revelation of his
Father, whom He is the perfect image of, and in the gift of the
Spirit, which has also been revealed by the Son. Today, the
proclaimed evangelic reading shows it up to us: the Son receives
everything from the Father in perfect unity: «All that the
Father has is mine», and the Spirit receives all that the
Spirit is from the Father and the Son. «Because of this —says
Jesus— I have just told you, that the Spirit will take what is
mine and make it known to you» (Jn 16:15). And in
another part of this same chapter (Jn 15:26): «When the
Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit
of truth who goes out from the Father, He will testify about me».
From
all that, let us learn the great and comforting truth: the Holy
Trinity, far from being distant and aloof, comes to us, dwells within
us and transforms us in its interlocutors. And this, through the
Spirit, which guide us into the whole truth (cf. Jn 16:13).
The incomparable “Christian dignity”, which, St. Leo the
Great, at times, speaks about, is this: to keep God's mystery within
us and, thus, revel in our Earth of our own Heavenly “citizenship”
(cf. Phil 3:20), that is, into the Holy Trinity's bosom.