Today we celebrate the great, yet impenetrable gift of the Holy Trinity.How do we even begin to try to explain this central mystery of our faith without tripping over ourselves in the inadequacy of our language and understanding?When we were young we relied on and were satisfied by St. Patrick’s use of the shamrock, a single plant with three leaves, to visualize the triune God.As we mature we may try to imagine the concept of perichoreses, the eternal dance of indwelling; poetic, and perhaps able to move our minds beyond our usual straight-line rationality.Fortunately, the beauty and grace of our bewilderment is that our very groping both leads us to and manifests the very thing we seek to understand—love in relationship.
                 
There is a reason we celebrate the feast of the Most Holy Trinity on the Sunday after the Ascension and Pentecost.  Our reality and our destiny through the gift of grace is to be drawn up into that dance with the one God—adopted by the Father through the Son, in the Holy Spirit.  We are part of the family spoken about in our First Reading today, gathered with Moses about to enter the promised land.  Moses recounts and wants the people to remember key moments from their history and how these experiences attest to God’s faithful love. Our Gospel tells us, even as we fall on our knees in doubt-tinged worship, we are called to go forward in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, confident that Jesus will always be with us.  As family, as treasured creation, we have a God who is for, with, and in us.

Our challenge is to remember, receive, and go forth in the Spirit of the Lord.In the Spirit of the Lord—rather than succumb to the temptations toward isolation, division, and fearful selfishness.Go forth remembering always love in relationship as members of the family of God.What are the moments in your own history that are undeniable signs of God’s enduring love for you?Where have you participated through receiving, witnessing, or offering pure love; outpourings of self that fill rather than empty?These are touchstones to revisit.There is no need to sit befuddled by mystery, trying to envision perichoreses, staring at shamrocks.We possess living signs that bind the family of God together, gathered up into the Trinitarian mystery of God in Himself. God’s very works in our lives reveal this to us.
                 
So certainly continue to grope, seeking to understand, seeking Love.  Let us celebrate the Holy Trinity, by opening our hearts each day to deeper relationships of love with God and others.  Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  ⁺AMDG⁺ kgm