Readings: Jeremiah 1:4-12, and John 14:15-27. 

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5). Our God, who is everywhere—within and beyond all space and time—knows everything. No one can hide from Him; there are no secret places to conceal our thoughts, the unspoken utterances of our minds and hearts. God sowed our souls, and as we grow and write the stories of our lives, He watches, guides, and hopes we will live with Him, in love, and for love. For God is love, and the nature of love requires relationship and community.

This Sunday, we explore the Trinity as the divine revelation of this love, a mystery that shapes our understanding of God, ourselves, and our purpose.

The Trinity is not merely an abstract doctrine but the founding point of our lives, a divine mystery revealed not by human reason but by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 16:17). Jesus tells us, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), and promises that the Father will love all who obey His teaching, saying, “We will come to them and make our home with them” (John 14:23). 

Every heart, every soul, is a home with entrances and exits. To whom have we opened the door? For, the spirits of evil desire to claim us, but God’s love is our life and its sweetness.

God is a tree and a branch, because a branch is the exact copy of the whole tree, just as Jesus, [and the Holy Spirit] are the exact image of the Father (John 15:1-5). By seeing Him, we have seen the Father (John 14:9). Two thousand years ago, Jesus spoke the Father’s words to His disciples, and through Scripture and the Spirit of truth, He speaks to us and to the world—past, present, and future. 

The bible weaves golden threads of love, wisdom, truth, and goodness from beginning to end. Once we understand the Trinity—the grammar of God’s oneness, indivisible and relational nature—it becomes visible throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, and New Testament from Abraham’s encounter under the oaks of Mamre (Genesis 18) to the City of God illuminated by the Father and the Lamb, (Revelation 21). 

The Trinity reveals that God is Himself a community of Being—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As those made in God’s image, we find meaning not in solitude or private interiority but in relationship: with God, self, and others. This triadic relationship teaches us that meaning arises from our interdependence. 

Yet, modernity’s emphasis on individualism, pleasure, and self-gratification constrains our freedom. It limits our exposure to the unknown, to challenge, and to connection with others, contributing to the growing mental health crisis, particularly among young people and men who feel isolated without family or status in a world that celebrates competition and material success.

The rise of AI hyper-personalisation risks deepening this crisis, eroding critical thinking and perpetuating biases. It fuels consumerist societies, prioritising material goods over human needs. To counter this, we must rethink our relationship with things, with money, and with each other, embracing the interdependence that the Trinity models.

God is omnipotent, yet in love, He humbled Himself, subjecting Himself for a time to the rulers of this world (Philippians 2:6-8). This humility led to Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection—a testimony of hidden wisdom, as C.S. Lewis illustrates in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where Aslan’s death on the stone table reveals a deeper truth unknown to his enemies. Love is humble and fragile, yet it is the source of life’s meaning.

Life cannot be separated from relationship. Meaning is not found in a mind alone but in the interplay of one thing with another. St. Augustine’s ordo amoris is the actualisation of all that is mind, body, and spirit, as the order of right action, or love in motion—love that begins wherever we are, for this mirrors God’s grace in meeting us where we are, not to stay, but to journey as pilgrim’s of hope. The Trinity, as God’s oneness, shows that He cannot be absent from Himself or from us. All we need to do is turn our attention to Him.

Walking this shared path of love, resolving disputes 1,700 years ago, the Council of Nicaea developed a creed to unite Christians. Through the universal cross of Christ’s love, we are gathered as unique individuals in His name, not our own. In the Nicene Creed, we declare our shared belief in one God, the Only Begotten Son, the Holy Spirit, and one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. Yet, in all our work for the Kingdom of God—praying for enemies to become neighbours and in welcoming strangers—why does the Christian Church remain so divided? God is not loud but a still, small voice, so in a noisy world we must ask: who are we listening to? 

Do we who call for humility humble ourselves? Do we who call for unity, are we united? The truth is that every Christian is united in Christ’s death and resurrection, and each Christian desires and holds the hope of sitting at His feet, listening attentively. In a fractured world, the call is for the laity to also be ourselves the body of Christ—each priest representing the individual, the laity the collective. Therefore as self and other, we are united as one with God. As laity we need to embrace with deep commitment the vocation given to us. The popular paraphrased quote, often attributed to Mother Teresa, “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family,” serves as a powerful message in these times. For the family is our Christian brothers and sisters worldwide. We may not like everything, but do we love them anyway? The time has come for Christian unity to be more than a distant dream; it is time for us to embody what we profess and it to be the same kind of different.

Synodality, walking together, is not meant to erase differences but to respect each individual charism. Love is not a possession, for we can take nothing but memories with us. It is a freedom to be and move within the other, a gathering of heaven and earth. In a world that pulls us toward isolation and materialism, the Trinity calls us to relationship. There is hope—Jesus and His saints give us that hope. May we open the doors of our hearts to God and to one another. 

Amen.