Faith, Humility, and the Unity of the Trinity

Fr Joachim Uzochukwu C.S.S.p

The readings of today are stressing on three things distinctively: faith, knowing your place and honor, and finally, the unity that Christ and God the father shares.

Faith is one of the most essential gift, tool, or activity that a Christian must have. Almost everything we do as Christians has its bedrocks on our belief, that is the reason faith is so important for us. A Christian without proper faith will lose easily everything when trails arise. Our faith in God, Christ, and everything the Church teaches is non-negotiable.

In the first reading of today, Paul had only to see that the crippled man has *FAITH* to be cured, and he that is what brought about his healing. With a strong faith, we can achieve a lot.

Taking glory can be very inciting. Taking honor when is not due for you can be very inviting but is never proper even as an ordinary citizen in the society not to talk of a Christian. When the people around Paul and other disciples wanted to raise them to the titles and honor of *gods* they rebuked them and stopped and even preach to them reminding and showing them that they are still normal human beings like them. God is only using them as an instrument to perform miracles. We as Christians can learn from the Apostles.

In the Gospel of today, Christ continues to preach about the unity that exists between him and the father. Christ throughout the whole Gospel always stresses the presence, the approval, and the unity of the father about whatever he does. He never takes the father out of the equation. " To have seen me is to have seen the father," "I and the father are one," "whatever I preach is from the father." All these show that Christ is not only the begotten son of the father, but he also respects and obeys the will of the father fully and ready to fulfill it to the full.

In conclusion, Christ, for the first time, talks about the advocate, making a stretch of what we are patiently waiting for "the Holy Spirit." While talking to the disciples, he promises them that whatever they do not understand will be explained fully to them by the advocate, which is the Holy Spirit. This completes the unity of the three persons in one (Trinity): the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit.

Christ's work continues to go on through the prophets and down to us as the Christians of today and as Christ preached/s about the unity that the father son and the Holy spirit share we too as Christians should stand on it and continue to preach and believe in that.

PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL