So today’s the feast of the holy trinity. 

As we said at the beginning of mass, it’s also father’s day. 

So I want to give a special shout out 

To all of our fathers out there, especially to my own father. 

I’m grateful to God for him and for the love 

That he has given me and my siblings over these years. 

The example of, like St. Paul says, 

Endurance and proving character. 

One thing about my dad, 

And I hope he’s not going to be watching this 

Because it’s probably going to embarrass him a little bit. 

My dad is a man without, he’s not into pretenses 

Or he’s very kind of straightforward, no nonsense. 

He does kind of what’s the right thing to do. 

It doesn’t matter if it’s popular or not. 

He’s not into political parties or ideologies, whatever. 

It’s just the thing to do. 

So he’s a man, I would say, 

Even though he’s a very smart man, 

He’s a man out of the heart, follows his heart. 

So our fathers and our mothers as well for that matter, 

We celebrated mother’s day last month. 

They are reflections of God the father. 

So it’s fitting that we celebrate 

Father’s day on this feast of the holy trinity, 

Father, son and Holy Spirit. 

My dad, not too long ago, 

He sat, I’m the third of four, so there’s four siblings 

And my niece and nephews, of course. 

My mom and my dad, 

They sat us down and they basically, you know, 

They’re still in good health and everything, 

But they just basically wanted to lay out for us 

The plan for when they pass on, 

Essentially like our inheritance. 

You know, who’s going to get what 

And basically everything is going to be split equally 

Amongst the four of us. 

Father Scott was right there with the Mercy Home envelope 

To get that collection. 

But anyways, my dad basically said, 

You know, essentially the whole point of his career 

Was obviously when we were younger to provide for us, 

And now it’s basically to give it all away, 

Give it all away to us, to others. 

And so I was thinking about that. 

His whole existence, you could say, 

Was not for himself. 

He was to give it away. 

Jesus says the same thing here at the last supper, our gospel. 

The father has taken what is his 

And declaring it to the son, and then the son 

Is taking what is his and declaring it to each one of us. 

So today is a day, I think, of great love. 

You know, they call the feast of the holy trinity the – 

Kind of like the great intellectual day – 

To try to figure out how three are one. 

But, you know, forget that. 

To me, it’s a day of the heart. 

When I heard my mom and my dad say, you know, 

Everything that we’ve been working for our entire lives is for you. 

I couldn’t help but feel love 

And feel kind of inspired to want to love them in return 

And kind of do the same thing, 

Not to be selfish in my life, to work, to give it away. 

So when Jesus says this to us, look, 

I came to this earth and I’m in the trinity. 

I could have just stayed up in heaven, 

You know, and had things easy. 

But I came down to give everything to you, 

To the apostles and to you, my brothers and sisters. 

That hopefully stirs within us a similar sort of love, 

A passion, and a desire to imitate the same. 

So again, today is a day of the heart, not so much the head. 

Jesus in the last supper, 

When he’s saying this whole thing in the final, 

You know, before he died, we were reading in the gospel. 

He also says, basically, look, the day’s going to come. 

Remember what he was saying earlier. 

You can’t, there’s so much more I have to tell you, 

But you can’t bear it now. 

That actually reminds me of the line from benjamin franklin. 

You know, when I was 16, my dad knew nothing. 

When I was 19, I was surprised how much my dad learned in three years. 

You know, I appreciated my father over the years. 

So there’s only so much we can handle at a time. 

But Jesus then will go on to say, 

He goes, the day’s going to come 

When you’re not going to ask any more questions. 

No more questions. 

Now, the reason why this is going to be is either two. 

One, we’re going to see everything and understand it, 

Or we’re just going to accept things as they are. 

So when it comes to the trinity, when it comes to our faith, 

We can always have a million questions. 

You know, why are things this way? 

How can God be father, son, and Holy Spirit at the same time? 

Why is there evil? 

All the questions we have about our catholic faith. 

And what today’s an invitation says, 

Like, you know what, don’t worry about it. 

God will make it clear to us at some point, 

Or we’ll just accept it as it is. 

And accepting it will give us great freedom. 

And then we’ll be able to live like Christ did 

With that joy in our hearts 

And to be able to spread that joy. 

So we pray on this day for the strengthening of our church 

And model of the trinity. 

Again, we pray for all parents, 

Mothers, all fathers, 

All those who act as spiritual mothers and spiritual fathers. 

May they continue to shine like the trinity 

And make the kingdom of God come about in our world. 

-Amen.