Cry "Abba, Father!"

June 2, 2012

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity 2012 B

By Rev. Joe McCloskey, SJ

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?  Deuteronomy  32b-34

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!"  Romans 8:14-15

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."  Matthew 28:18-20

Piety

Piety is the lived expression of the love of God in us.  The Trinity is the love name of God.  The Father speaks the Word of love that is the Son.  Total giving meets total receiving.  Perfect giving and perfect receiving is the meaning of love and the makeup of the Holy Spirit.  God’s love reveals to us the mystery of his hidden life.  We could never have known the makeup of God without his revelation.  Our love is what makes us like God.  Wherever there is love God is there.  We hear God speaking to us in the voice of Creation.  God gives us a world to live in and opens the heavens with all great gifts that we might know the love of God in the daily bread of our lives.  God gives us what we ask for.  He sends his son into our lives that the daily bread of love might feed us with God’s life.  He opens us to be god-like in who we are.  Our piety is how we love life and love Gods.  By living the fullness of the gift of love.  God gives us of his life.

Study

Our Study teaches us what God is asking of us.  The commandments of God and how we relate to each other are the perfection of interpersonal love.  The secret of life is no longer secret when we accept the commandments as how to live out our lives in God.  We discover how to imitate the perfect unity of God in community.  No man is an island that accepts god as lord of life.  God calls us to love one another as he loves us.  God enjoins us to love each other with the giving of our lives for the sake of a God-like world made so by our living our lives in a deep personal love of everyone that is a part of our lives from family to strangers.

Action

Our greatest action will always be calling God “Abba, Father.” We have not received a spirit of slavery, but rather a spirit of adoption.  We live our lives as heirs of God by the respect we have for all of creation around us.  There is no genuine spirituality that spoils the world we live in.  How we share what we have with other is how the love of God is seen.  We must treat everything as a gift for our use to love and serve the Lord our God with all our heart and spirit.  We put up even with injustice to be like the Christ whose life reveals the perfection of how to live as one of God’s children.  We do what we do because the Lord commands us to baptize our world into the possession of God by our recognition of the God of creation.  Our observance of all that Christ has commanded us gives us the presence of God in our lives.  We worship the Trinity by living our lives with love of every one.  We give our lives that there be a better world because we have lived in it.  We call God Trinity because God has revealed himself to us as three persons in One God.  Our family reflects Trinity and makes Trinity part of all we are.