Please read this passage before reading the homily.
My sisters and brothers,
We celebrate today the feast of the Holy Trinity. We honor God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We celebrate three person, three relationships that are so perfect that they are fully and truly real persons, while being only one God.
That is the end of the homily. The rest is explanation. Look at the relationship: “God so loved the world. God sent his Son.” God wanted the world to be saved.
We all have relationships, parent and children to each other, spouse to spouse, employer and employee, friend to friend, neighbors, commuters traveling, teacher and pupil, and so on.
Our relationships are not perfect; often we find our relationships strained and sometimes destroyed. While our relationships may be personal, they are not persons because they are very imperfect.
God’s relationship within God is personally perfect and therefore God is three persons in this relationship, at home with self in the three relationships of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Father sends the Son. At the same time, the Son volunteers and the Holy Spirit is poured forth. The relationship is so perfect that from all eternity, before there was any creation before there was any sin, the relationship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit had already planned to come down to our world and show us how to live in relationships as the one God has always lived in perfect relationships within God’s self.
God came, not to condemn, but to love. God came to give life, not death. God comes to heal our relationships so that we can share the life and relationships that God enjoys in the communion of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.