My twin nieces have taught me something very important. I recall when they were babies, sleeping in their crib, they would often end up in physical contact with one another at some point during their sleep. But of course! They spent had spend 9 months sharing the same “sleeping bag”—my sister’s womb—so why wouldn’t they want to stay close to each other even as babies? They have taught me that from the very beginning of our very being we are meant to live in close connection with one another. I believe this is what we celebrate in the Feast of the Holy Trinity, this weekend’s feast. We celebrate the fact that God is three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and One God. The Divine is a community of Persons! Like a family. And we are made in the image and likeness of that God, who is a family of persons. Therefore, we have family and community built into our very identity.
This complements what we celebrated last week at Pentecost, when the whole thrust of the Spirit drives us closer together and takes away the distance, language, and other obstacles that divide us. Like my nieces, who as babies found ways to take away the distance from one another and found ways to be touching each other, the Spirit helps remind us of our identity as essentially connected as sisters and brothers. Today we are reminded that our very core we, the human family, are meant to live in union. While we are many persons, at heart we are One.
At Our Lady of Guadalupe, we are at our best when we live as One Body. We have another opportunity to walk as One on Saturday, June 6th, as the Camino de California Eucharistic Procession comes to our neighborhood. The Diocese has asked us to host this procession, in honor of Corpus Christi the following day. We will begin at Chicano Park by the Bay (at the end of Cesar Chavez Parkway) on June 6 at 1:30 pm, and we will use the same route as we used on Good Friday. We will stop briefly at Fr. Joes’ Village and then finish with a prayer at approximately 3:30 pm at our shrine to Our Lady, and Eucharistic Adoration in our church. Come and be One with us.