The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
May 30, 2021
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Lectionary: 165
Reading I
Moses said to the people:
"Ask now of the days of old, before your time,
ever since God created man upon the earth;
ask from one end of the sky to the other:
Did anything so great ever happen before?
Was it ever heard of?
Did a people ever hear the voice of God
speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live?
Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself
from the midst of another nation,
by testings, by signs and wonders, by war,
with strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors,
all of which the LORD, your God,
did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
This is why you must now know,
and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God
in the heavens above and on earth below,
and that there is no other.
You must keep his statutes and commandments that I enjoin on you today,
that you and your children after you may prosper,
and that you may have long life on the land
which the LORD, your God, is giving you forever."
Responsorial Psalm
R. (12b) Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Upright is the word of the LORD,
and all his works are trustworthy.
He loves justice and right;
of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made;
by the breath of his mouth all their host.
For he spoke, and it was made;
he commanded, and it stood forth.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield.
May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us
who have put our hope in you.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Reading II
Brothers and sisters:
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
but you received a Spirit of adoption,
through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!”
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
if only we suffer with him
so that we may also be glorified with him.
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit;
to God who is, who was, and who is to come.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
The eleven disciples went to Galilee,
to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.
When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.
Then Jesus approached and said to them,
"All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."
Reflection: THE PURPOSE OF OUR CALLING
Each year, the Holy Mother Church invites us to reflect on the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity. The mystery of the Holy Trinity presupposes our knowledge is limited and finite, we know something about it, and we can never fully comprehend it. In today's gospel, we see that the eleven disciples follow the directions to Galilee and arrive at the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. After they recognize him, Jesus solemnly declares the purpose of them being sent into the world. A particular attention has to be paid to the commissioning words of Jesus, as he sends them into the world, with the assurance of the Father, the Son (himself) and the Holy Spirit, and carry out the task of evangelization. The disciples are told to go out and make disciples of all nations. In the reality of the world today, the solemnity of the Holy Trinity demands us to create a world where social and cultures boundaries are dissolved, ethnic and gender restrictions are lifted. Even though we live in a world of inculturation, a culture of melting pot', the commission remains the same: make disciples of all nations, through the two-fold task of baptizing and teaching. We accomplish such task of baptizing and teaching in this threefold name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In doing so, we continue the work that Jesus inaugurated thorough a radical way of discipleship. The feast of the Holy Trinity brings us face to face with the foundations of our faith: the faith into which we are baptized, and the proclamation we are called to preach to those around us, leading to build the Body of Christ. Each time, we sign ourselves with the Sign of the Cross with the Trinitarian formula, we are reminded of the faith into which we are drawn, growing into, and the faith we are called to witness.