The image of God that the Scriptures give us on this Trinity Sunday is not at all one of a lonely figure. Rather, God is shown as being a community of intimate love between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is what Jesus reveals. The Trinity is often presented as a difficult mystery, unconnected with our daily lives, like a puzzle to be solved. The language of the Trinity arose because of what we want to say about Jesus. We believe that in the person of Jesus, God encounters us. When we try to explain what this actually means, we draw upon the tradition of the Church, which has concluded that Jesus is divine in the full sense. So Jesus is the revelation of God’s own self to us.
Like the disciples last week, who received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, we too are called to let our breaking of the bread affect the way we share our life with each other by sharing our possessions, especially with those in most need. We are reflecting not the image of a lonely, distant God who seems not to care but rather a God who is a communion of love that continues to be poured out in the world.