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31 mag 2026

31 May 2026 - Holy Trinity - Year A

31 May 2026 - Holy Trinity - Year A

1st Reading: Ex 34:4-6, 8-9; Psalm: Dan 3; 2nd Reading: 2 Cor 13:11-13; Gospel: Jn 3:16-18

Today’s feast is special: we are glad to have been made partakers of divine life when we were baptised. We therefore wish to know our God, to understand the characteristics of his heart and his way of life, his relationship with us, and his desires for us. All this is reflected in the readings chosen to celebrate this mystery.

Moses has a new encounter with God. He had met him in the burning bush at the start of his mission. Today he meets him on the mountain: he holds two stone tablets, upon which God himself will write the Ten Commandments with his finger, to guide the people. Once again, the encounter is mysterious: God is in a cloud, which hides him and at the same time reveals his presence. Once again, he introduces himself: ‘The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in love and faithfulness’. Why is he described as ‘merciful and gracious, slow to anger’? Man is always a sinner, deserving of punishment. Therefore, God presents himself with his special love, so that no one is overcome by fear in his presence. But he adds: ‘abundant in love and faithfulness’: with these words he lets us see his heart, where love is never lacking, and where his love is faithful: he will keep the promises and blessings already spoken.

A God like this is unique: no people know a God like this. Therefore Moses responds to the revelation with the prayer: ‘May the Lord walk among us’. He expresses the desire for constant closeness, even though we are difficult, stiff-necked and guilty sinners!

Jesus takes up these words of God to his servant Moses to continue and deepen our understanding of the love we receive. He is speaking to one of the leaders of the Jews, one who ought to know everything and yet knows nothing. Indeed, whoever does not know him, Jesus, cannot know God. He, Jesus, has been sent here by the Father precisely to bridge the gulf of our ignorance, and above all of our poverty of love. He is the very fullness of the Father’s love for our world. And he will be so, and we shall see it, when he is handed over to men and offers himself.

The world deserves condemnation, but the Son does not come to bring about that condemnation, but rather to save it from it: in this way the Father’s merciful love becomes visible, concrete, realised. In what way? ‘Whoever believes in him’: faith in the Son of God is salvation! Whoever entrusts themselves to him finds themselves in the Father’s heart, and thus can enjoy new life.

The new life that springs from faith manifests itself in that joy which the world neither knows nor receives. Saint Paul urges us not to hide this joy of the heart: ‘Rejoice, strive for perfection, encourage one another, share the same sentiments, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you’. These encouraging words can be spoken precisely because the Christian lives immersed in the Triune God, in the unity of his threefold love. All that belongs to God becomes our own: here we are in joy, journeying towards perfection, mindful of encouraging one another, united by the same love that makes peace shine upon the earth.

And the Apostle concludes with his greeting, which we often repeat in the Eucharistic liturgies: ‘The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.’ This greeting-blessing brings us back to the remembrance of our baptism. The Lord Jesus Christ welcomes us into his death and raises us up in his new way as the Risen One. God the Father clothes us and fills us with his life, which we can define in no other way than as love—a love certainly greater and more beautiful than that of which human beings are capable. And the Holy Spirit makes us one with the divine Persons and with one another: it is a spirit of full and holy communion.

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity reveals to us not only our God, but also our very identity: we are children of the Father, children in the Son, united among ourselves by their Spirit. We celebrate and remember this source of joy every time we raise our hand to our forehead to make the sign of the cross of Jesus with the words of our baptism.