{"id":1508,"date":"2013-05-20T18:32:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T08:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=1508"},"modified":"2013-05-23T21:45:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:45:29","slug":"sunday-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/sunday-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readings: Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalms 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15;<\/a><\/p>\n

In this brief excerpt from the Last Supper Discourse, the Lord teaches us something amazing<\/strong> today. He gives us a glimpse of the very nature<\/strong> of God. Like a lightening flash, he lights up for a split second the “structure” <\/strong>so to speak, of God.<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit, Jesus tells us, can only speak what he hears<\/strong> from the Son. And everything the Son has, he has received<\/strong> from the Father. That means that each one<\/strong> communicates their entire selves<\/strong> to the others. They don’t just share some points of view, information, or experiences: they actually communicate their whole selves<\/strong>, their entire divine persons.<\/p>\n

What is God? God is a total unity of three persons<\/strong>, an everlasting community of living love<\/strong>, of mutual self-giving. There is no holding back, there are no hidden agendas, there is no manipulation – the inner life of God<\/strong> is absolute, no-holds-barred generosity<\/strong>, eternal and unlimited self-donation<\/strong>. That’s what God is: three perfect divine persons who perfectly share the unique divine nature.<\/p>\n

How can this be?<\/strong> How can God be three distinct persons and still only be one God? We simply don’t know. We can only get an inkling<\/strong> of it from our human experience of life in a family. We are created in God’s image, and so the love that links husband and wife and gives rise to new life – this is a pale reflection<\/strong> of the divine family of the Blessed Trinity. Non-Christians often criticize<\/strong> this concept of the Trinity. They say it is a contradiction<\/strong>. But in fact the very mystery<\/strong> of it is a sign that it rings true<\/strong>. No merely human mind could have made this up; only God could have revealed it. And anyway, if we could understand God fully, he wouldn’t really be God.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readings: Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalms 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15; In this brief excerpt from the Last Supper Discourse, the Lord teaches us something amazing today. He gives us a glimpse of the very nature of God. Like a lightening flash, he lights up for a split second the “structure” so to speak, of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}