The Trinity: The Trinity 2025

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The Trinity 2025 

June 15, 2025

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Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15

 

Our friendship with God takes time, and God will give us what we are able to hear in due time. The Gospel tells us that God treats us patiently and respectfully, giving us what we need when we need it. The Spirit will act as a gentle guide bringing us to truth. Truth-telling takes time. Gaining wisdom takes time.

 

The reading from Proverbs introduces us to the Wisdom of God who was present in the act of creation. The Wisdom of God existed before creation, before the big bang, and played with God before the heavens were made. God and Wisdom enjoyed bringing the universe to life, and they found great delight in creating humans. Even today, we must look up into the stars to behold God’s expansive cosmos and be filled with wonder at so many mysteries we cannot yet comprehend. Psalm 8 echoes our sentiment: How can you, O God, creator of immensity, even bother to think of us. As humans, we are so small in relation to the cosmos, and yet God cares for us particularly. God cares for all creation that is brought into being.

 

This feast of the Trinity reminds us that we have a wide range of divine support to get through life. The creating God tells us that the world is still evolving and calling all creation, including us humans, into being. God is not finished with us yet. Scientists point to the discovery that the universe is still being born; it is still in its infancy stage, and we humans have a crucial role in the cosmos as we possess consciousness and compassion. Humans have introduced those attributes into the memory of the cosmos and every time we do something creative, something innovative, we are advancing the expansion of the cosmos. Every act that we do, every thought we think, is now part of the cosmos and embedded into God’s memory.

 

Jesus of Nazareth provided us with a way of life compatible to God’s kingdom. He revealed a caring, compassionate way of connectedness and belonging to one another as a unitive aspect of creation. Through our daily struggles, we are to advance God’s kingdom as Jesus revealed to us. He gave us a path of goodness that is in line with evolving creation. He showed us how we are gifts to ourselves who are to be shared fully and freely with others.

 

The Spirit is present to guide us and to shape our choices. The Spirit inspires us to be more fully human and divine; encourages us to build up the common good; liberates us to raise up our friends and neighbors; and to teach us how to always choose what is right and life-giving. The Spirit unifies and makes us one – with God and Jesus, and with our human family.

 

Whenever there is an increase of love, God is present. Love is what entangles us. God’s love for us perfects us and brings us into humanity. Jesus of Nazareth entangled us to be a part of his human family with God as our head. The Spirit entangles us so we know how much we are part of and are connected with each other. As we behold the Trinity, we are given the Wisdom that existed before the foundations of the world were established. This is certainly a Wisdom we can trust. 

 

Scripture for Daily Mass

Monday: (2 Corinthians 6) In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you. Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry

 

Tuesday: (2 Corinthians 8) We want you to know, brothers and sisters, of the grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction,
the abundance of their joy and their profound poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

 

Wednesday: (2 Corinthians 9) Brothers and sisters, consider this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

 

Thursday: (2 Corinthians 11) Please put up with me. For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere and pure commitment to Christ.

 

Friday (2 Corinthians 11) But what anyone dares to boast of (I am speaking in foolishness) I also dare. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they children of Israel? So am I.
Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I am talking like an insane person).

 

Saturday (2 Corinthians 12) I must boast; not that it is profitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who, fourteen years ago
(whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows), was caught up to the third heaven.

 

Gospel: 

Monday: (Matthew 5) You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.

 

Tuesday: (Matthew 5) You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.

 

Wednesday (Matthew 6) Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others.

 

Thursday (Matthew 6) In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

 

Friday (Matthew 6) Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

 

Saturday (Matthew 6) No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

 

Saints of the Week

 

June 19: Romuald, abbot (950-1027), was born into a family of dukes from Ravenna and became known for founding the Camaldolese Benedictine order that combined the solitary life of hermits into a monastic community life. He founded other hermitages and monasteries throughout Italy. 

 

June 21: Aloysius Gonzaga, S.J., priest (1568-1591), gave up a great inheritance to join the Jesuits in 1585 in his dreams of going to the missions. However, when a plague hit Rome, Gonzaga served the sick and dying in hospitals where he contracted the plague and died within three months. He is a patron saint of youth.

This Week in Jesuit History

 

• June 15, 1871. P W Couzins, a female law student, graduated from Saint Louis University Law School, the first law school in the country to admit women. 
• June 16, 1675. St Margaret Mary Alacoque received her great revelation about devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 
• June 17, 1900. The martyrdom at Wuyi, China, of Blesseds Modeste Andlauer and Remy Asore, slain during the Boxer Rebellion. 
• June 18, 1804. Fr. John Roothan, a future general of the Society, left his native Holland at the age of seventeen to join the Society in White Russia. 
• June 19, 1558. Fr. Lainez, the Vicar General, summoned the opening of the First General Congregation, nearly two years after the death of Ignatius. Some trouble arose from the fact that Fr. Bobadilla thought himself entitled to some share in the governance. Pope Paul IV ordered that the Institute of the Society should be strictly adhered to. 
• June 20, 1626. The martyrdom in Nagasaki, Japan, of Blesseds Francis Pacheco, John Baptist Zola, Vincent Caun, Balthasar De Torres, Michael Tozo, Gaspar Sadamatzu, John Kinsaco, Paul Xinsuki, and Peter Rinscei. 
• June 21, 1591. The death of St Aloysius Gonzaga, who died from the plague, which he caught while attending the sick.