All you Need is Love: The Trinity Sunday 2026

                                                         All you Need is Love:

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 strength 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 move love, a deeper love, a transformative love. Love is who God eternally is. 

 

Scripture for Daily Mass

Monday: (2 Peter 1) For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion, devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love.

 

Tuesday: (2 Peter 3) Wait for and hasten the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved in flames and the elements melted by fire. But according to his promise we await new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

 

Wednesday: (2 Timothy 1) For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.

 

Thursday: (2 Timothy 2) Be eager to present yourself as acceptable to God, a workman who causes no disgrace, imparting the word of truth without deviation.

 

Friday (2 Timothy 3) You have followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, persecutions that I endured.

 

Saturday (2 Timothy 4) I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus: proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.

 

Gospel: 

Monday: (Mark 12) A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey. At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard.

 

Tuesday: (Mark 12) Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion. You do not regard a person’s status but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?

 

Wednesday (Mark 12) Moses wrote for us, If someone's brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants.

 

Thursday (Mark 12) You are right in saying, He is One and there is no other than he. And to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.

 

Friday (Mark 12) “How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David? David himself calls him ‘lord’; so how is he his son?” The great crowd heard this with delight.

 

Saturday (Mark 12) Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces, seats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets.

 

Saints of the Week

 

May 31: Visitation of the Virgin Mary commemorates the visit of Mary in her early pregnancy to Mary, who is reported to be her elder cousin. Luke writes about the shared rejoicing of the two women - Mary's conception by the Holy Spirit and Elizabeth's surprising pregnancy in her advanced years. Elizabeth calls Mary blessed and Mary sings her song of praise to God, the Magnificat.

 

June 1: Justin, martyr (100-165), was a Samaritan philosopher who converted to Christianity and explained doctrine through philosophical treatises. His debating opponent reported him to the Roman authorities who tried him and when he refused to sacrifice to the gods, was condemned to death. 

 

June 2: Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs (d. 304) died in Rome during the Diocletian persecution. Peter was an exorcist who ministered under the well-regarded priest, Marcellinus. Stories are told that in jail they converted their jailer and his family. These men are remembered in Eucharistic prayer I. 

 

June 3: Charles Lwanga and 22 companion martyrs from Uganda (18660-1886) felt the wrath of King Mwanga after Lwanga and the White Fathers (Missionaries of Africa) censured him for his cruelty and immorality. The King determined to rid his kingdom of Christians. He persecuted over 100 Christians, but upon their death new converts joined the church. 

 

June 5: Boniface, bishop and martyr (675-754), was born in England and raised in a Benedictine monastery. He became a good preacher and was sent to the northern Netherlands as a missionary. Pope Gregory gave him the name Boniface with an edict to preach to non-Christians. We was made a bishop in Germany and gained many converts when he cut down the famed Oak of Thor and garnered no bad fortune by the Norse gods. Many years later he was killed by non-Christians when he was preparing to confirm many converts. The church referred to him as the "Apostle of Germany."

 

June 6: Norbert, bishop (1080-1134), a German, became a priest after a near-death experience. He became an itinerant preacher in northern France and established a community founded on strict asceticism. They became the Norbertines and defended the rights of the church against secular authorities.

 

This Week in Jesuit History

 

• May 31, 1900. The new novitiate of the Buffalo Mission, St Stanislaus, in South Brooklyn, Ohio, near Cleveland, is blessed. 
• June 1, 1527. Ignatius was thrown into prison after having been accused of having advised two noblewomen to undertake a pilgrimage, on foot, to Compostella. 
• June 2, 1566. The Professed House was opened in Toledo. It became well known for the fervor of its residents and the wonderful effects of their labors. 
• June 3, 1559. A residence at Frascati, outside of Rome, was purchased for the fathers and brothers of the Roman College. 
• June 4, 1667. The death in Rome of Cardinal Sforza Pallavicini, a man of great knowledge and humility. While he was Prefect of Studies of the Roman College he wrote his great work, The History of the Council of Trent. 
• June 5, 1546. Paul III, in the document Exponi Nobis, empowered the Society to admit coadjutors, both spiritual and temporal. 
• June 6, 1610. At the funeral of Henry IV in Paris, two priests preaching in the Churches of St Eustace and St Gervase denounced the Jesuits as accomplices in his death. This was due primarily to the book De Rege of Father Mariana.