The Trinity Sunday 2026
May 31, 2026
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Exodus 34:4-9; Daniel 3; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; John 3:16-18
The church celebrates
the Trinitarian nature of God by highlighting three aspects of God’s
relationship with us. In this God we see the Father, loving the Son, who
receives everything from the Creator Parent, and the Spirit between them is the
divine love poured into the world. It ought to tell us that life itself begins
in joy and overflowing love. We are meant to live in communion, not in
isolation or competition. The new encyclical, Magnificent Humanity, by
Pope Leo emphasizes this communion through Catholic Social Teaching and care
for the common good. God’s love wants us to know that we have life in abundance
and overflowing joy.
Paul’s letters to the
Corinthians show us the way forward: Rejoice, change your ways, encourage one
another, agree with one another, and live in peace. It is a simple plan of
life. We also know life is complex. It is easy to be nice to nice people. It is
not so easy to remain nice to people who have poor social boundaries or lack
social etiquette. It is less easy to be nice when some family members are
divided, when politics remains polarizing, when people think their thoughts are
the only right ones. We find ourselves in a world of increasing loneliness and
with people living beside one another, but not truly with one another. Hence, a
major reason for Pope Leo to concentrate on Artificial Intelligence and faith’s
interaction with science. Here is where the Trinity comes in. Every act of
reconciliation reflects the mercy of the Trinity.
Though we try to listen,
it is difficult to be with someone who listens poorly and speaks as if the
person owns the truth. They suck the air out of the room and are not open to
the informed thoughts of others. It is difficult to remain in relationship when
someone has an addiction or mental illness or is stubbornly closed to other’s
opinions or looking at one’s own areas of growth. It is difficult for a good
person to choose charity over contempt when it appears as the other person
seems to get rewarded for bad behavior. It is not easy to stay position and as
a person of innate goodwill, and that is exactly what God is asking us to do.
Our work of
encouragement is not syrupy niceness. It means that we have to strengthen
another person’s spirit, even if the person acts poorly socially. We have to
call forth courage so that someone who is tentative can choose what is best for
herself. We have to help someone remember who he is, not as an accumulation of
failures or bad decisions, but as a person that God is still trying to get to
one’s real self. Whenever we heal relationships or help one understand herself
better, we reveal the image of God. When we take the time to listen deeply or
forgive thoughtfully, we reveal the image of God. When seek unity without
trying to dominate the other person, when we call the best forth from him, we
reveal the image of God. Love does not erase differences. It is able to hold
people together in communion. A Trinitarian community is one in which we help
each other become fully alive.
The Trinity reveals the greatest gift possible – self-giving love. God is love.
Love is God. If we feel any increase of love, we experience the grace of God.
If we cannot know for certain if God was present, we ask ourselves, “Am I
experiencing love?” If the answer is yes, God is present. It is the very nature
of love, the very nature of God, to join and bond with others because love is
intrinsically relational. Love is a cosmic force. It wants to relate. It cannot
exhaust itself. Love creates more love, a deeper love, a transformative love.
Love is who God eternally is.
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