We Cry Abba Father June 11

Piety

Father, Son and Holy Spirit, help us to have great faith in our union with you on this Trinity Sunday. Grant to us the spirit of adoption so we will move mountains as we cry out to you as your children, “Abba!”

Give us the strength to go where you tell us to go -- up mountains, through deserts, across valleys and into cities and towns. Help us to make new friends and bring them in union with your friendship. Amen.

Study

"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!” Romans 8:14

Today is Trinity Sunday, a day to celebrate the new life we get through Jesus and also the new relationship of intimacy that we have with God.

Throughout our lives, we make new friends. When we move, get a new job, change schools, or start volunteering, we meet new friends and build new relationships. Great change has just occurred before today’s Gospel reading. This is the end of the Gospel of Matthew.

Jesus has been put on trial. Condemned. Crucified. Died. Buried. And the women found him missing from the tomb. They encounter him and he gives the order to meet up in Galilee.

As Paul writes in the Second Reading today, the glory that believers are destined to share with Christ far exceeds the sufferings of the present life. Paul considers the destiny of the created world to be linked with the future that belongs to the believers. As it shares in the penalty of corruption brought about by sin, so too will it share in the benefits of redemption and future glory that comprise the ultimate liberation of God's people.

As we move to the Gospel, we see Jesus in the only resurrection chapter in Matthew’s book meet up with his remaining disciples on a mountain -- apart from the city And the activity of the world. Jesus ordered them up a mountain not unlike God ordered Moses up a mountain to get the commandments in the Hebrew Bible. So we know that something big will happen here.

When they saw him there, they doubted – just as Thomas doubted in Luke’s Gospel because he had not seen. They still were not in that complete union with Christ. They doubted – had little faith.

Since universal power in heaven and on earth belongs to Jesus, he gives the disciples a universal command to baptize all the nations of the world. Baptism is the rite of entrance into the community but also entrance into the union with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The disciples are no long followers of the teacher but now must become the teacher to others.

Action

Write Palanca this week and submit those to the team members for the Women’s 122nd Cursillo. You can find the address for Palanca here: http://arlingtoncursillo.org/CursillosSubweb/w122/w122.htm.

Also, while on the site, pick some time on the Palanca clock to spend an hour in prayer for the weekend.

(Tomorrow will mark the first day another Cursillista will submit a reflection for Your Dialy Tripod. Our message will come from a woman who was on the 113th Cursillo at Missionhurst. Let me know if you would like to pick a day soon to offer the daily reflection. Tune in to your e-mail or www.yourdailytripod.blogspot.com for continued inspiration.)