GLORY TO THE TRIUNE GOD!! (Gospel Reflection for Trinity Sunday - Mt. 28:16-20)

Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. It is one of the mysteries of the Catholic Christian Faith. The Trinity is that there is one God but has three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Many non-catholic brethren questions this teaching of the Holy Catholic Church. It is very difficult to explain, even St. Augustine, a very wise and well known Theologian had a very hard time discovering it. In one story, Augustine was walking in the seashore trying to figure out how to explain fully the doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity. He saw a child digging a hole in the sand and transferring the water from the sea to the small hole. Augustine asked: "what are you doing, child?" then the child replied, "I'm going to put the waters of the sea to this small hole" and then Augustine realized that the doctrine of the of the Most Holy Trinity is so broad that no human mind can explain.

In today's Gospel, Matthew tells the story of the ascension. Among the four evangelists, he sites one basis of our doctrine of the Holy Trinity. "Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Mt. 28:19). All of us are called disciples of Christ, we share the mission He entrusted to the disciples. We Christians are commissioned to baptize in the name of the Most Holy Trinity. We are called to preach the good news. May we all have a fruitful Trinity Sunday.