Great homily from visiting priest and parish priest

We had a visiting priest at our parish last week and he gave a great homily about the Trinity. His point was that "three" points to true love. Just as Man A finds woman B and create child C, there is God the Father working with God the son and God the Holy Spirit. I thought this was great and I had never heard it that way before, but after an internet search, I found most of the priest's homily on a homily web site. Here is some of that homily from the web:


True love requires three partners. You remember the old saying "Two is company, three is a crowd." The Trinity shows us that three is community, three is love at its best; three is not a crowd. Taking an example from the human condition we see that when a man A is in love he looks for a woman B so that together they can produce a baby C. Father, mother and child — love when it becomes complete becomes a trinity. Over and above that, each one of us becomes fully human only when we are in relationship with God and in relationship with others. In that way our life becomes Trinitarian like that of God. Then we discover that the I-and-I principle preached by Bob Marley and practised by the society at large leaves much to be desired. The doctrine of the Blessed Trinity challenges us to adopt rather an I-and-God-and-neighbour principle. I am a Christian insofar as I live in a relationship of love with God and other people. May the grace of the Holy Trinity help us to banish all traces of selfishness in our lives and to live in love of God and of neighbour.

Also, I went to Mass on Memorial day and the priest did a great job connecting Jesus' and Mary's sacrifice and the sacrifice that the men and women in our military did for our freedom, their lives. Jesus died for our freedom, freedom from sin and the devil. Mary gave up her normal life to be the mother of God, a very big sacrifice if you think about it especially after she realizes that Jesus will die for us all. We all need to remember the sacrifices of the fallen soldiers and thank them by praying for all the soldiers who have recently died for us, that they will have a short purgatory and final stop in heaven. But we also need to remember that Jesus and Mary call all of us to sacrifice our lives to be one with God and to show true love to all - the three way love of God - I - neighbor from Sunday's homily.