[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