Trinity Sunday And Father's Day

Trinity Sunday and Father’s Day

What is the ultimate structure of being? What can we hope for? Is there some ultimate shelter? These are existential, social, and above all, theological questions.

On Trinity Sunday we consider the community style of God’s nature, as applied to Fathers. In the Most Holy Trinity, the solitude of the One is avoided, even the separation of the Two, the Father and the Son, is overcome by the Holy Spirit who is the love between them that is sent to us first in baptism.

For Fathers this means no Authoritarianism, No Machoism. Believing in the Trinity means that whatever promotes a shared family life is good and beneficial.

E.g. Dad’s should include their kids and family whenever possible in the “Holy Trinity” of American Sports: which can be like a civil Religion: Football, Baseball and Basketball (we should probably add soccer).

2. Elizabeth Catez asked for help in understanding her interior need for silence and recollection, and her sense of an inexplicable presence in the depth of her soul. She discovered that she had a strong awareness of the indwelling of the Trinity in her soul. She became St. Elizabeth of the Trinity.

Faith-wise, Fathers are called to be spiritual leaders in their families, by insisting on grace before meals, Sunday Mass, the family rosary. Men who abdicate this responsibility as husbands and fathers, can become apathetic, distant, often absent, uninterested and uninvolved in the spiritual direction the family and children.

The souls of our wives wilt before our eyes, and our children grow more distant and more attached to peers than parents as they seek the love and leadership that they lack from their fathers.

God has assigned husbands and fathers a sacred stewardship that involves responsibility for the spiritual growth and well-being of wives and children. The roles and relationships within the Trinity call us to realize that God intends households to reflect a reality that is true in the Godhead itself.

3.In his book Healing the Masculine Soul, Gordon Dalbey suggests that too many young men grew up in a masculine vacuum, “They grew up with fathers who were non-nurturing, uncommunicative, or absent most of the time. This left them in a literal no-man’s land of confusion about how to express authentic maleness.”

E.g. In South Africa's Pilanesberg Park, rhinos were thriving until an unknown killer began stalking them. Thirty-nine rhinos, 10 percent of the population in the park, were killed.

The killings clearly weren't the work of poachers. The rhinos' horns hadn't been touched. The park rangers began conducting an investigation. Their first findings led them to believe that if they were to round up the usual suspects, they'd need a pretty large holding pen.

That's because the prime suspects were not humans, but elephants. It turned out that young male elephants were behind the murders of Pilanesberg's rhinos.

The solution was to bring in a large male elephant to lead them and to counteract the young elephants’ bully behaviors.

And it worked!

Tips on Human Adolescents

Get advice on dealing with teenagers, who can at times also be difficult.

Lastly, mental health professionals know that the feeling or perception of isolation is one of the greatest causes of psychological suffering. Human beings are relational by nature, created in the image of a Triune God who has loved us into existence.

The book Daring Greatly defines shame simply as “the fear of disconnection.” When people negativity judge their own worthiness based on a variety of extrinsic factors, that will more likely keep other’s at arm’s length. We have to let ourselves be seen.

If we pray contemplatively, we will sense that the Trinity is all about relationship and connection. Our sense of disconnection is only an illusion. Nothing can stop the flow of divine love. Father’s, lets tap into it.