Today’s feast is one that calls on us to be full of gratitude for our faith and to celebrate with one another God’s closeness to us. As we continue with our Eucharist, the great prayer of thanksgiving, we will be reminded that once again we are caught up in the mystery of the Trinity. Soon you will see the priest outstretch his hands over the gifts of bread and wine – the gifts that represent you and me and all our prayers – and the prayer is that the Holy Spirit will come upon those gifts so that Christ may be present among us as our food and drink, uniting us in His life and His love. And what does Christ do? He gathers us and our prayers, and presents us to His Father. All that the Father has is Christ’s: He and the Father are one; and His prayer is that we may all be one too.
We are thinking about a mystery and in this life we will never grasp its full meaning, but it is not entirely beyond us. Christ became human so that He could speak to us in our own language about God, and He told us about His Father and the Spirit. And remember, the Spirit leads us to the complete truth.