Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity. We celebrate the mystery of the inner life of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The inner life of God is communal, is relational; it is family. In contemplating the Trinity, we reflect on the family of God.Today is a feast of God’s love and mercy. In proclaiming this Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis writes that mercy reveals the very nature of the Most Holy Trinity. The mystery of the Trinity can only be approached by analogy through our own experience of the power of love. What we can understand points to what we cannot fully grasp, the inner life of God. But we glimpse it. God is a community, three divine persons emptying themselves into one another in an infinite cycle that is the source of all love. To grasp the inner life of God in the mystery of Trinity, we don’t need to be theologians; rather we need to experience the great gift of friendship and love and mercy in life. For us, Jesus is the face of the Father’s love and mercy. Human friendship has the power to free people from the isolation we all experience as individuals. At its highest point, friendship has the power to overcome the defenses and barriers that keep us separate. We anticipate the thoughts and the needs of the beloved as our own, and we abandon ourselves in this exchange. This is the beauty of love and friendship whether it is a young couple passionately in love, or the quiet intimacy of the long-married couple or with old friends whose habits are intertwined with affection and humor and familiarity. The mystery of the divine family in the Blessed Trinity is perfect in the relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Our response to the Trinitarian love of God for us is one of gratitude. And so, in this Eucharist, we gather to give thanks to the Lord our God. When we know the merciful love of Jesus in the depths of our hearts, we will love with an attitude of gratitude for our days. The Spirit-filled grace we seek is to see in the struggles of our family life, we realize more fully our need for God’s grace and to be more immersed in the mystery of God’s love for us. Jesus immerses Himself in our limitations and our struggles. Through united to God, Jesus empties himself of divine privilege and becomes one of us and dies like a slave. In so doing, God is pouring out mercy to a broken world. Our brokenness does not keep us from receiving the love of God; rather, it is because of our brokenness that God send his Son into the world to be our friend as well as our Savior and Lord.