June 15, 2025.
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth.” (John 16, 12-13)
The Holy Trinity serves as a constant model for Christian behaviour. It is a model which shows us how to work for unity but with the stamp of the typical Trinitarian. God is unity, is one, but at the same time different, given that they are three different people. The same essence of God – that which is one and different at the same time – shows us to respect legitimate differences that exist while we try to reach unity amongst ourselves.
This “word of life”, therefore, is inviting us to do all that is possible to reach this essential unity while respecting the plurality. This should lead us to yield in al that is not absolutely essential. Because, unfortunately, the great majority of conflicts start not because of fundamental differences, but because of small egoisms, because people want to be in the limelight, because of pride that doesn’t let us admit when we are wrong, because we won’t ask forgiveness or forgive. Frequently the important and essential questions are put up as a screen, as an excuse, to justify the fights carried out ignoble and vile feelings.
Well we should be conscience that the unity is our great treasure which we must defend whatever the price and that, precisely, so that it doesn’t break we must learn to respect legitimate differences, accept that the other is different because he has a right to be and even the same fact – that of being different – is a gift for the rest, because this way we can complement each other. God maintained unity respecting legitimate differences and that should be our model.
Intention: Yield in all that is not essential. Be firm, on the other hand, on those things which affect the principles fundamental to our life and our morality.