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