Holy Trinity
May 26, 2024
A few months ago, I began playing the game Connections online each day. The game consists of 16 words that you need to put into groups of four with a common element. Last week one of the groups was party games, I knew three of the games, I had never heard of “Werewolf”. I was discussing this with a friend which led to a discussion of party games in our past. I shared that I liked the Farmer in the Dell. She asked if I liked being the rat that sits alone, I said no. I think I like the walking in circles and singing, “The farmer in the Dell, Hi ho the Dario, the farmer in the dell.”
Today we celebrate the feast of the Holy Trinity. One of the ancient descriptions of the Trinity is a divine dance of love. I liked Fr. Donder’s reflection for today in the Give Us This Day book.
“What do those three in one do?”
The answer is found in a Greek word, a beautiful word: epichoresis. That means a dance. They are dancing hand in hand, three in one, enjoying one another, enjoying their lives.
If that is true, and if we are their children, it should be true of us, too. If that is true, that dance must be the core of their divine culture.
In Kenya, this intuition has special significance. [It has been said] that the core of African culture is the dance.
Not the dance around something. Not a dance around a golden calf, but the dance in which men and women, the old ones and the young ones, enjoy and dance and celebrate their lives together in peace and community without fear, not thinking of themselves alone. To be able to live that life, to be able to dance that song, we must be like them, those three in one, without fear of one another.
The Trinity is a divine dance of love. In our life, as we dance through our days, we discover the Trinity is with us, dancing in love for each one of us.
Maybe the trinity can be found in a child’s game, we hold hands in a circle and none of us are the rat alone, our God is always with us . We all reach out and touch the trinity, as we dance, we sing, “The Trinity of God, the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit, hi, ho the Dario, the Trinity of God.”