HOMILY PRONOUNCED BY MONS. DIEGO MONROY PONCE; GENERAL AND EPISCOPAL VICAR OF GUADALUPE, RECTOR OF THE SANCTUARY.
THE HOLY TRINITY

Sunday, june 3rd of 2007

GOD PRESENTS HIS MYSTERY TO US

Brothers, we praise to God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the Holy Spirit that comes from both and who makes us to know every day his bottomless mystery of love for us. Because of faith in this God, one God in three people, we have been children of Him by the love that he has for us; thanks to this faith which is a gift of his Spirit, we can call with all confidence and truth “Father” to our God, the unique and true one who has shown Jesus to us, our brother and Lord.

My brothers, today in the Church we celebrate the great central mystery of our faith: faith in only one God, One God and three people. It is about the central mystery of the christian faith that without it we can not be called chistians. Because, my dear brothers, there are several ways to refer to God, but the proper of the Christianity is the faith in The Trinity. The God in who we believe, he is not a vague and impalpable concept. It is rather a God with a face that has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ, the Son of God and our brother.

Brothers, we do know that because of faith that the father sent his Son to give us the mistery of His being –because Christ is the face of the father- in order to know Him we experience His love, and receiving it and being grateful with him, we enter in the depth of his mystery. ¡The salvation consists in that!, it is not another thing, it is just that.

For that reason, it is very important that we understand more, every day, with the help of His Spirit, which is the work that God does in favour of us through each of the divine people, and to achieve this understanding He sent His Spirit to us, according to the Gospel of Saint John that we just listened.

Let us see how the word of God helps us to understand it, which is as neccesary as surprising, through the things that the readings from this sunday say to us.

In the first reading we listened to the “wisdom of God” personified that speaks about itself as somebody that has his origen in God and that presents from the creation of the world and that has the task of leading the men to God. Brothers, for christians, the text reveals an aspect of the mystery of Christ, the Son of God. Living word of God. It is the wisdom of God, as Saint Paul (1 Co 1,24) called it. Wisdom that reveals to us (better than nothing and than nobody) the true God´s face our father who loves us with sweetness and mercy.

This wisdom does not just reveal only God to us, but it discovers the deepest reality of ourselves: which is about that we are the result of His wisdom and for than reason, we have been created for Him. We know in Christ, by the faith that His Spirit instills into us, that everything has its total sense in Him, because everything has been created by Christ, that in Christ, everything has its consistency, and that its sense is in Him. So, the good thing, the beautiful thing, life and what are derived from these: the arts, science, history and all the human reality; everything reveals the kindness of God in who we believe, because the Son is in the origin and in the destiny of everything that exists. The sciences have still a lot to explain to us, but the last reason of everything that exists is in the creative wisdom of God who is His Son.

The second reading gives us a group of gifts and goods that have been given us: in the first place the peace that Christ has obtained us through faith in Him; the access to the grace of God, to the hope of the glory of God; but specially the love of God which has been spilled in us by the Holy Spirit who has been given us. This is the gift by excellence that Christ achieved with his Holy Spirit for us. Here is the true explanation of our existence. My brothers, that´s why I have said that the revelation of the mystery of God ,who is three people and only one God, and who is also revelation of our being, because when we know that our origin and destiny are in the Lord, we can keep ourselves in patience and in hope amoung the tribulations and oppositions that are present in the way throung this world.

In the Gospel we listened to Jesus, who on the verge of leaving his disciples at previous night of his passion, he assured them the gift of his Spirit of truth that will make the work to lead them in the knowledge, every day deeper and with the truth, of all that He has taught them. Indeed Jesus had said and made many things before the disciples, but it was so clear that until the previous day to his passion, they did not understand many things of them. Jesus knew well that he would had to say many more things to them, but for the moment they could not understand them because they need a special capacity which would give them the Holy Spirit. In this way, it is as the Spirit gives glory to Christ, in the same way that the Christ does it with respect to the Father from whom has received everything.

Therefore, brothers, we have only one revelation that has its source in the Father, it is made through the Son and it is fulfilled in the believers through the Holy Spirit that closes the dynamics of faith and the love between God and his creatures the human beings.

All the life of the Church develops in the mistery of the Trinity. The Eucharist is the most perfect expression of this mysterious reality, which is very fundamental for the life of the believers. In the Eucharist, my brothers, we direct our pray of praise, of plea for forgiveness and the request, together with our brother and with the Lord Jesus Christ and moved by the love of God that makes us to experience his Spirit. Through the Scripture, the Spirit makes us to understand better, every time, and with more depth, his word that sanctifies to us and transforms us, as Church or believing community, into temple of Him in the middle of the world to be witnesses of the wonders of God.

Our Lady is in the middle of the Church, the mother of God, our little girl Holy Mary of Guadalupe teaches us, and She accompanies us in this way, every time more joyful, although not without suffering, towards the motherland where the father waits for us.