Take care of your family: Discuss what we can learn from the Trinity to live better as a family

7 June 2020 TRINITY SUNDAY (Jn 3:16-18)

“God so loved the world that he gave his only son.” “God sent his Son into the world… to be saved by him.”
On many occasions, and especially in prayer, we are convinced that we must elevate ourselves to God. That is our effort and we always feel that it is not enough. But we do not realize that it is a futile tension. Can we, in our smallness, elevate ourselves to the mystery of God? No, God has foreseen it in another way: he comes down to us and gives us his only Son to be saved by him.
He loved us first. We must open up, receive him, open the doors to him. And that is the work of the Holy Spirit. Loving openness to the unexpected, to go out of ourselves and trust in that Spirit of love.
Perhaps, in this “family” relationship between Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we have the model of all our family relationships: “lowering oneself” and putting oneself at the level “of others”, respecting their moments and smallness; daily “giving oneself” for those we love; “opening up” to the other, to their mystery, to their inner treasure

Proposal to take care of the family this week:
In our prayer let us feel like the prodigal son, emptying ourselves and open to what the Father gives us through the Son, by the Holy Spirit. Let our prayer be like that.
And let us be open to the gift that is our family, in the image of the family-Trinity of God. Perhaps for this we can discuss what we can learn from the Trinity to live better as a family.

Margarita Angulo and José Morenodávila

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