Trinity Sunday Yr C 2025

Title

The Spirit of Truth

Outline

There was a book written a good while ago entitled, The Go-Between God.

That is a good description of the Spirit, for he is also described as the love between the Father and the Son and Jesus describes him as the one who will “take from what is mine and declare it to you” but of course the “what is mine” is also what is the Father’s, for “Everything that the Father has is mine.” So the Spirit is not only going between, the bond between, the Father and the Son but also as the one given by the Father and the Son to us the one who brings their presence to us.

It is easier to think of the Father and the Son

The Father may be unseeable but he is “the Creator of Heaven and Earth” and thus the source and being of something that we can see. The Son became joined to us as Jesus, the God-Man, so he was seeable and touchable, at least until the ascension, since he now has a transcendent body. The Spirit is not a thing nor the ultimate source of a thing, that is, the source of the heaven and the earth, but blows like a wind, as John ch 3 says, with only his effects being experienced. He is involved in all the sacraments, especially baptism and confirmation, but is not physically present on any level of materiality such as Jesus is present in the Blessed Sacrament.

It is hard to separate the Spirit from the Son

There is a wisdom pneumatology as is implied in our first reading, but there is also a wisdom Christology, for Christ is the wisdom of God, as Paul says.

It is true that ‘we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access [by faith] to this grace in which we stand.” And we like that because Jesus was very material, human, at least as we experienced him, but then “the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy Spirit that has been given to us.” There comes the Spirit in his go-between role brining us the love of God which was concrete in our midst as Jesus Christ.

And that is the evidence that we are really dealing with God

Jesus was not just an inspired human being but God himself. He and the Father come to us through the unseen Spirit. And that is only perceived through grace by faith resulting in “hope of the glory of God.”

And so each morning I pray for the Spirit to come and guide me and take control of my day. I thank him at the end of the day for he did just that, but in the middle of the muddle I may experience nothing. I pray each morning for his sevenfold gifts, among which are wisdom, but I see them in virtue and character and usually by hindsight.

And that is why the Spirit calls us to contemplation and adoration, for he is the unseen real.