04/06/2023

Today the Catholic Church asks us to celebrate the total being of God, the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

She also reminds us that if we are to be "Catholic" this is the last day for us to pledge ourselves to our professed belief by receiving the Eucharist in a "state of grace" brought about by Sacramental Confession.

God has never said directly to us IAMFATHERSONANDHOLYSPIRIT. 

 "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased"

 "You will conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit".

"Who has seen me has seen the Father".

In Rudyard Kipling's novel "Kim" the boy Kimball O Hara would lose himself in a semi-mystical trance in questioning "Who is Kim?" The word "Kim" is itself the word for "Who" in Turkic languages. He asks "WHOISWHOIS" and, whirling dervish-like, loses himself in the depths of his own soul.

In the Jewish Scriptures "IAMIAM" reveals a person responsible for "Being", the Creator , the Almighty Father. In the New Testament, Jesus, Christ, True God and True Man, reveals all that we need to know about the Kingdom of Heaven and three persons Father, Son and Holy Spirit are with us as one substance, even to the end of time.

The wonder of the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory of the Trinity, is with us not to understand but to worship with the totality of our finite beings. God is unknowable except in what he reveals to our openness to him. If we seek him out as did Nicodemus we too will be given direct answers to what is troubling us. Our God wants to bring us all into his Eternal Kingdom. Why do we refuse such lavish love?

Dear Lord, You know that I hope that I am within the bounds of your Mercy. I hope that your Church is much more than the Human Institution it became as soon as our first prelates took on the trappings of worldly rulers. I hope that your grace can find me. May Mary lead all the saints in praise of your total being and may the grace of your Mercy flow over all of us bringing forgiveness to sinners on earth and complete penance to the souls in Purgatory.