Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- One Love, One Heart...

Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus declares his mutual indwelling with God: "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?"

Charles Williams, a friend of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, stated that the master idea of Christianity is "coinherence," what he described as mutual indwelling.

But we sometimes forget that we are all interconnected. How do we often identify ourselves? Almost exclusively through the naming of relationships: we are sons, brothers, daughters, mothers, fathers, members of organizations, or members of the Church.

Yet read the Gospel today and see how Jesus identifies himself. Jesus reveals the coinherence that obtains within the very existence of God. "Master," Philip said to him, "show us the Father, and that will be enough for us." Jesus replied, "Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father."

How can this be true, unless the Father and the Son coinhere in each other? Though Father and Son are really distinct, they are utterly implicated in each other by a mutual act of love. As Jesus says, "The Father who dwells in me is doing his works."

As a member of my parish churches former choir I placed an illumunated display including a statue of our Blessed mother and Saint Joseph holding the Our Savior as a baby facing a state highway along with an illuminated sign reading FOR AMERICA SAY THE ROSARY.
While saying the daily rosary I include invocations for our country and to be able to sing at my church and receive Communion on my tongue

I see Barron makes no mention of the Holy Ghost or reference to the Holy Trinity.

Not suprised.

Here's the preface of the Traditional Latin Mass for Trinity Sunday, for votive Masses of the Blessed Trinity and on all Sundays throughout the year, except in Paschaltide and on feasts which have a proper Preface.

It is truly meet and just, right and availing unto salvation that we should at all time and in all places give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty and everlasting God. Who with Thine only-begotten Son and the Holy Ghost art one God, one Lord; not in the oneness of a single person, but in the Trinity of one substance. For that which we believe from Thy revelation concerning Thy glory, that same we believe also of Thy Son, and of the Holy Ghost, without difference or separation. So that in confessing the true and everlasting Godhead, we shall adore distinction in persons, oneness in being, and equality in majesty. Which the angels and archangels, the cherubim also and the seraphim do praise nor cease to cry out as with one voice saying:

Hey, Murph. Here's the Preface I of Ordinary Time in the Novus Ordo Mass:

It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,
always and everywhere to give you thanks,
Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God,
through Christ our Lord.

For through his Paschal Mystery,
he accomplished the marvellous deed,
by which he has freed us from the yoke of sin and death,
summoning us to the glory of being now called
a chosen race, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, a people for your own possession,
to proclaim everywhere your mighty works,
for you have called us out of darkness
into your own wonderful light.

And so, with Angels and Archangels,
with Thrones and Dominions,
and with all the hosts and Powers of heaven,
we sing the hymn of your glory,
as without end we acclaim:

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts . . .

Do you see any mention of the Holy Ghost or the Holy Trinity in the above Sunday preface?

Compare that to the traditional preface I posted earlier above.

Maybe that's why Bobby Barron failed to mention the Holy Ghost in his daily email to his worshipers.

There was no such preface before Vatican II that focused on man as the novus ordo prefaces:

summoning us to the glory of being now called a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation

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