Breaking the Word

  During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled." And Mary said: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord;…

Mary remained with her about three months and then returned to her home. (Lk 1:39-56)

Mary received the good news that she was to be the mother of Jesus, the Son of God. As soon as she received the news she travelled to Judah to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was also with a child in her old age. Divine presence or divine action always compels one to go to the other where there is divine action. 

Meetings of people of Divine action or divine presence always bring joy and blessings. The child with her womb leapt for joy. Greetings of blessings are exchanged. In their meetings faith is confirmed among themselves.  And they sing praises to the Lord as Mary did.

The third element in their gathering is to do service to the needy and be present with the needy until the needy person requires or the one who is doing is able to do. For Mary remained there about three months and returned to her home. So, the Divine revelation brings the people of Faith together and makes them exchange the blessings, and sing praises to God and serve each other. 

"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.  (Jn 16:12-15)

Father has everything. There is nothing in existence which is not of the Father. This is the summary statement about the Father that we find in this passage. Everything belongs to the Father. And the Father is the source of everything. With the same idea we are trying to comprehend the Father. 

Father does not hold everything to himself. The Father who is the beginner, the creator, the source of everything shares everything with the son. The other quality of the Father is to share. By sharing everything to the Son, the Son becomes a reflection of the Father. God shares his Divinity and hence The Son also is God. The Father and the Son are equal in everything: one is the other.

The Spirit ‘will take from mine’ and declare to you. The Spirit is a revealer, and all what he reveals is from the Son. And we know that all what the Son has is from the Father. So the Son also shares everything with the Spirit. The Spirit in his turn reveals to the humanity.

The Feast of Trinity makes us reflect on sharing. The Father shares everything with the son and hence the Son and the Father are equal; and the son shares everything with the Spirit and hence they also become equal; thus The Father, the Son and the Spirit are equal to each other in their sharing.  All these are shared with us, so that we might become godly people. So sharing makes us godly.