Episode Transcript
[00:00:12] Speaker A: Welcome to the Blessed Sacrament Homilies podcast, where our mission is to help everyone recognize and experience the presence of God. We hope you are nourished and encouraged by the Word. Thank you for joining us.
[00:00:26] Speaker B: The Lord be with you and with your spirit. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
Glory to you, O Lord Jesus said to his disciples, I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth.
He will not speak on his own, but he will speak. But he hears and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify Me because He will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine.
For this reason, I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
The Gospel of the Luke.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
I have mentioned this to you before on Trinity Sunday, but I've had a professor who advised us all, never, under any circumstances, preach on the Trinity on Trinity Sunday.
Because he said, I guarantee you, you will preach heresy.
And the reason why he told us that is anytime we try to encapsulate a mystery of our faith, there's a pretty good chance we're going to screw something up. And there's no greater mystery than that of the Trinity, our understanding of our God.
So rather than preach on the Trinity, I'm going to preach on you and who you are.
And we get a hint of that from our understanding of who God is, because we believe that we are created in the image and the likeness of God.
And that image is always based on relationship.
The very understanding of the Trinity is the loving relationship between Father, Son, giving birth to the Spirit.
And that's what our identity is.
So we are a people created in relationship.
We relate to our parents, to our children, to our families, to our friends, to our community and to the world.
And we are forever intertwined.
There is no separating us from one another.
Now, where that comes into its fullest understanding is in our understanding of how we relate back to God.
And if you've ever been asked by a fundamentalist friend, do you have a personal and individual relationship with Jesus Christ, and you're not 100% sure how best to answer that, that's part of the reason why.
It's because it's not our imagination and our mindset as Catholics to necessarily think that way. And that's okay, because I always answer, well, kind of. But let me explain.
I believe we, the community called the Church, have a relationship with Jesus Christ because we all come together.
It is about the living, breathing body of Christ, which is us, the church that comes before God.
And that has its advantages.
One of the advantages is if you have ever said to anyone talking about perhaps your grandmother or your mother who has passed and say, well, hopefully they're going to get me to heaven as well.
That's kind of what it's like, because we drag everybody kicking and screaming to Christ because we're so interconnected. We're each members of one body, and we celebrate that by gathering together. This is not a group of individuals here to worship.
This is a group that is a community that comes together to unite.
And we do it around one table. We call the altar the table of the Eucharist.
And we see it in what we actually do. We take one bread, and it shared among all of us so that we all become members of that one body.
Now, hopefully I didn't just speak any heresy because I didn't talk about the Trinity as much as I talked about you.
But in understanding how we're created, we can better understand the Trinity.
