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​The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity – Year A​

This episode explores how the readings for Trinity Sunday reveal the very nature of God as a communion of love — and how the liturgy of the Mass draws us into that same relationship, friendship, and alliance with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

First Reading (Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9): At the renewal of the broken tablets, God reveals Himself as “merciful and gracious, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity,” and binds Himself to His stiff-necked people in a covenant of love.

Second Reading (2 Corinthians 13:11-13): Paul’s Trinitarian blessing — “the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit” — echoes the covenantal language of friendship and alliance with the Triune God.

Gospel (John 3:16-18): “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.” The love that is forever shared among Father, Son, and Spirit overflows into our world — and is made edible in the Eucharist.

Liturgical Connection: The nature and mission of the liturgy and the nature of the Holy Trinity are one — they are both love. The Mass renews our relationship, friendship, and alliance with the very source of our life.

Key Message: The Trinity is not an abstract doctrine but the very life of love we are invited into at every Mass. Through the liturgy, the Father gives, the Son feeds, and the Spirit sends — so that we might be in the world who we have received during the liturgy.

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