Reflection for Sunday 31st May, 2026

God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

The feast of the Most Holy Trinity is a celebration of how God created us, lifted us up from sin and continually sanctifies us. As Saint Paul expressed it, the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit is with us.

The grace of Jesus Christ

God loved the world so much that, even after sin, he sent his Son to redeem us. Not to condemn us, but to be the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

God’s grace is a gift from the Father … manifested especially in the coming of the Son in human flesh. Ours were the sins he carried, ours the suffering he bore.

“Lord, Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness and thankfulness.”

The love of God

Why did God create humans in His own image and likeness? The great theologian St. Thomas Aquinas said that love did not permit God to remain alone. The Franciscan Duns Scotus suggested that God wished to have co-lovers. In today’s First Reading we read, “Lord, Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness and thankfulness.”
There are people who say that the Old Testament is too much about war and cruelty. Yes, there is a lot about wars, but we must not overlook the beautiful prayers called the psalms, and the moral teaching and wisdom books in the Old Testament. It is said that the New Testament stands on the shoulders of the Old Testament.

Fellowship of the Holy Spirit

This is the bond of divine love uniting us with God and one another. Love begins in the Father: is manifested to us in the Son: and poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit. “Hope will not let us down, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.” (Romans 5:5)
The power to live as God’s children is possible because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit … an inner spring welling up to eternal life.
The English mystic Julian of Norwich tells us that God is my Maker, my Upholder and my Lover.