Ex 34:4-6, 8-9; 2 Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18
The world, we live in, is not as simple as it might seem to be. It is
full of unexplained mysteries that raise several questions that remain to be
answered till date. There are many such mysterious phenomena, which find no
satisfactory explanation in science. Many of the mysteries keep us wondering,
asking questions, and striving to learn more about our world are simply
amusing. They have perplexed individuals all throughout history.
The Bermuda Triangle is believed to possess certain supernatural powers
due to which aircraft and ships coming in its vicinity disappear. Moreover,
researchers have never been able to find the exact cause of the disappearing of
vessels and aircraft, neither have they been able to trace the lost objects.
The Bermuda Triangle remains an unexplained mystery.
Unidentified objects, abbreviated as UFOs, are disk-like objects seen in
the night sky. Some of them glow and have lights. People claim to have seen
them float in sky or fly across speedily. It is said that they could be spaceships
or vehicles of the aliens traveling to Earth
Archaeologists have found about thirteen crystal skulls in parts of
Mexico as well as Central and South America. They are 5000 to 36000 year old
human like skulls made out of milky crystal rock.
Long years of research might be able to find answers to some of them
while many will remain being unresolved for generations to come. If there are
so many things that cannot be explained in this world, how can we explain the
mysteries relating to the creator of this world!
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. It is a
mystery that cannot be comprehended by the human beings. The root of the word
“Trinity” originates from the Latin word “trini” which means “three each,” or
“threefold”. The one and only God is Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In
other words, in Jesus dwells the Father and the Holy Spirit. And the same can
be said about the Father and the Holy Spirit.
The doctrine of Trinity teaches us that God does not exist in isolated
individualism but in a community of relationships. This doctrine conveys the
message of unity, the oneness that exists in God. The church invites us to
share the same unity. “United we stand and divided we fall” says the proverb.
Aesop’s fable The Four Oxen and the Lion conveys this message very effectively.
A Lion used to prowl about a
field in which Four Oxen used to dwell. Many a time he tried to attack them;
but whenever he came near they turned their tails to one another, so that
whichever way he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At
last, however, they fell a-quarrelling among themselves, and each went off to
pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. Then the Lion attacked them
one by one and soon made an end of all four.
This is
the greatest problem of the modern world. Unity has given way to division.
Division among the nations; division in the society; division among the
Christians; division in the Church and division in the family. It poses threat
to the very existence of human race. Still we fail to recognize this enemy.
All the
religious teachers, all the world leaders, all the philanthropists and all the
social reformers have dreamt of a world where unity reigns. Martin Luther King
had a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves
and the sons of former slave owners would be able to sit down together at a
table of brotherhood. Today our dream should be that all the human race should
live together without the distinction of caste, creed, colour or language.
This change should begin from the bottom level that is you and me. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote,
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is,
because man is disunited with himself.” When the individual is reconciled to himself, the
unity that he experiences will spread to the family, to the
society and to the world at large.
St Paul
wrote that Jesus is head (Colossians 1:18) and we are all members. Jesus taught
“I and the Father are One."(John 10:30). Therefore as members of the
church we have to be one. St Paul wrote to the Romans that “we are children of God” (Romans
8:16-18). If we are children of God, members of the church and followers of
Jesus, we are bound by the command of Jesus to foster unity above all. Martin Luther King reminded us that “We have
learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not
learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”
When we
celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, let us learn the art of
living together as brothers. Keep in mind the words of Helen Keller “Alone we
can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Satish