Dear Brothers and Sisters, Fiat!
The Bible readings for this Sunday, feast of the Most Holy Trinity, helps us to enter into the identity of God. The second reading presents the departing words that Saint Paul bids to the community of Corinth: “the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you” (2 Cor 13:13). This — as we say — “blessing” of the Apostle is the fruit of his personal experience with God’s love, that love which the Risen Christ revealed to him, which transformed his life and “impelled” him to take the Gospel to the peoples. Beginning from his experience of grace, Paul could exhort Christians with these words: “... rejoice. Mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another” (v. 11). The Christian community, even with all its human limitations, can become a reflection of the communion of the Trinity, of its kindness, of its beauty. But this — just as Paul himself testifies — necessarily passes through the experience of God’s mercy, of his forgiveness.
It is what happens to the Hebrews in the Exodus journey. When the people break the covenant, God presents himself to Moses in the cloud in order to renew that pact, proclaiming his own name and its meaning. Thus he says: “the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity” (Ex 34:6). This name implies that God is not distant and closed within himself, but is Life which seeks to be communicated, is openness, is Love which redeems man of his infidelity. God is “merciful”, “gracious” and “rich in charity” because he offers himself to us so as to fill the gap of our limitations and our shortcomings, to forgive our mistakes, to lead us back to the path of justice and truth. This revelation of God is fulfilled in the New Testament thanks to the Word of Christ and to his mission of salvation. Jesus made manifest the face of God, in substance One and in persons Triune; God is all and only Love, in a subsistent relationship that creates, redeems and sanctifies all: Father and Son and Holy Spirit.
Today’s Gospel “sets the stage” for Nicodemus, who, while playing an important role in the religious and civil community of the time, has not ceased seeking God. He did not think: “I have arrived”; he did not cease seeking God; and now he has perceived the echo of His voice in Jesus. In the nighttime dialogue with the Nazarene, Nicodemus finally understood that he had already been sought and awaited by God, that he was personally loved by Him. God always seeks us first, awaits us first, loves us first. He is like the flower of the almond tree; thus says the Prophet: “It blooms first” (cf. Jer 1:11-12). In fact Jesus speaks to him in this way: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life” (Jn 3:16). What is this eternal life? It is the immeasurable and freely given love of the Father which Jesus gave on the Cross, offering his life for our salvation. And this love with the action of the Holy Spirit has shined a new light on the earth and into every human heart that welcomes him; a light that reveals the dark corners, the hardships that impede us from bearing the good fruits of charity and of mercy.
On August 14, 1932, Jesus told Luisa that the Divine Will produces light in the soul; the light generates the knowledge; light and knowledge love each other, and they generate love. So, there where the Supreme Will reigns, the Sacrosanct Trinity reigns in act. God is led by nature, in an irresistible way, without ever interrupting, to generate continuously, and the first generative act He does within Himself. The Father generates Jesus continuously, and Jesus, His Son, feels continuously generated in Him; the Celestial Father generates Him and loves Him. Jesus is generated and He loves the Father, and from One and the Other proceeds Love. In this generative act, without ever ceasing, are enclosed all Their admirable knowledges, Their secrets, Their beatitudes, the times, Their dispositions, Their power and wisdom – everything that eternity encloses, in one single generative act that forms the whole entirety of the Divine Being.
So, it seems that this reciprocal which forms the Third Person of the Supreme Being, inseparable from God and Jesus, is not content with Their generative act within Themselves, but wants to generate outside of Them in the souls – and, behold, They entrusts the task to the Divine Will animated by Their Love, to descend into souls and go to form Their divine generation with Its light. But It can do this in one who lives in the Divine Will - outside of It there is no place to form God’s life; The divine Word would not find the hearing to let itself be listened to, and as God’s knowledges would be missing, Love would not find the substance in order to generate – and here is the Most Holy Trinity messed up in the creature.
Therefore, we should be attentive in listening to what this light wants to tell us, so as to give it the field for its generative act.