14 June 2025 – The Most Holy Trinity (Sunset Mass) | Father’s Day

by Rev. Fr Fabian Dicom

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, there is a line in today’s First Reading that opens a window into the very heart of God – Proverbs 8:30-31:

I was by His side, a master craftsman, delighting Him day after day, ever at play in His presence, at play everywhere in His world, delighting to be with the sons of men.

Here, wisdom is poetically personified as the radiant self-expression of God’s creative joy.

Wisdom is not a separate divine person, but scripture uses her voice to reveal the deep gladness. God feels in creating a world made for communion. And most of all, this communion in humanity, in us.

Before there were mountains or oceans, before sin or salvation, God was already delighting in the idea of us. He was.

This is the mystery we contemplate today – the Most Holy Trinity. Not a formula to memorise, not a puzzle to decode, but the very nature of God which is eternal communion. Together for all time. Like some of you say, “Gather, gather.”

Perfect relationship, the bond that never breaks and self-giving hope – LOVE. A love that holds nothing back. The essence of God.

Now, the Trinity is not static doctrine. It is dynamic life. God is not a solitary monarch, somewhere far away. But I want to ask you to imagine. He is but a dance of love. If you could just imagine that – This dance of love, Father, Son and Spirit, pouring into one another.

I would ask you all to get up and dance but you know… Yeah, we want to celebrate our God that way, to have that in our hearts and in our minds. The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit – imagine that! Pouring into one another without beginning, without end. A God who is never alone. A God who invites us to that same communion.

But this mystery, this lovely mystery also confronts us because we live in a world that breaks relationships. Borders are fortified, war, exploitation, climate crisis, migration without dignity, children born into hunger, a planet crying. And we have families fragmented, a divided church that all to often becomes an institution of control instead of a community of love.

Are we not closer to despair than to delight?

Yet, the Trinity stands as a divine protest.  A divine protest. God says, 

“I am not power over. I am love among.”
“I am not dominance. I am communion.”
“I am not a triangle on a chart. I am the space between persons.”
“The breath, the embrace, the life poured out.”
“That is who I am.”

And in this light, we hear Jesus say in the Gospel,

“I still have many things to say to you, but they would be too much for you now. But when the Spirit of Truth comes, He will lead you to complete truth.”

What grace! That God does not overwhelm us with the truth, but walks with us through it.

Jesus, the Word made Flesh, is the fullness of God’s revelation. There is no newer Gospel. But we still need the Spirit to unfold what Jesus has already revealed:-
To speak it afresh in every generation.
To speak it afresh today. To help us bear the weight of truth today.
To help us discern, help us read and understand the signs of the times, here, right now.

And this is what Jesus means when He says,

“The Spirit will declare to you the things that are to come.”

Not novelty but discernment. Not new doctrine, but new demands of love.

We can never exhaust the demands of love of the Lord. New demands of love every time and we must not be afraid to love like the Lord for every new time.

And the Spirit is not finished speaking, not in the Vatican only, not in seminaries, not in Pastoral Assemblies only. The Spirit speaks in the slums, in the margins, in the migrant footsteps, in the silent tears of the excluded. Speaks to perhaps someone next to you who may be smiling and bleeding in the heart.

Sitting here, the Spirit speaks to a church that must re-learn Jesus. We need to re-learn Jesus. Not as an abstract Lord, but the One who washed feet, who stood with the leper, who died between two criminals and rose with wounds still visible.

And Paul in today’s Second Reading reminds us that the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

Poured, not sprinkled.
Overflowing, not rationed.

This love is not teary and it is not neutral. It is always choosing, choosing the vulnerable, always breaking the chains of justice, always drawing us into the risk of relationships.

And I speak that from my own experience. I struggle through it but this is the love. It draws us that way. And it gives us the strength to be able to do that. 

My friends, Trinity Sunday is not about what God is. It is about what we must become.

To believe in the Trinity is to be committed to communion. And I want to stretch this communion to solidarity:-

~ To be committed to the tears, the pain, the joy of my brother and sister, wherever he or she is. That I can feel that across races, classes and creeds, across borders and barricades, across silence and wounds.

~ To believe in the Trinity is to resist every force that fractures humanity. Because God is One and humanity is meant to reflect that Oneness.

This mystery is not static. It moves. It breathes. It calls us to become living icons of communion, to become the body of Christ in a world that has forgotten how to love.

So let us ask who is left out of the circle?
Whose cry have we stopped hearing because we are so loud?
What truth are we not able to bear?

The Spirit is still speaking. Let us listen.

Let the Trinity not remain stained glasses or statues or locked in theology books or whispered only in formal prayers.

Let the Trinity be flesh and breath in our lives. 

Let our parishes, our families, our ministries be spaces where God’s life flows freely, where no one is excluded, where justice and mercy kiss.

This is our calling to be Trinity people, rooted in the Father’s creative love, formed in the Son’s self-giving and moved by the Spirit’s fire to build a new world.

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

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