Gospel: John 16: 12-15
What does the Trinity mean and what relevance does it have for our lives? The fundamental reality of God is that God is love, and love by definition is expressed toward another in relationship. The fact that God is a community of persons expresses the idea of God being love: these persons of the Trinity are so united in love with one another that they form one single entity, one single bond of unity that is the ideal expression of love.
What is more, this love is expressed to the world in the person of Jesus who comes to reveal this love of God and to show human beings how we might live these bonds of love among us. He did so by extending forgiveness, in performing deeds of love and mercy in healing, liberating, and feeding others wherever he went, without distinction or discrimination to all he encountered. This love cannot be killed or ended by death. It continually rises and lives in our midst.
In the ministry of Jesus we are called to live this love, to attempt however imperfectly to form bonds of love in community and throughout the human race by loving others as Jesus did. We do this through forgiveness, through deeds of healing, deliverance, and feeding of others. The life of the Trinity is a life to which we aspire in our life. This is what the Trinity means. This is the relevance the Trinity has in our lives.
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