Yesterday we celebrated Trinity Sunday. What is the Holy Trinity? It is the Christian way of saying that God is experienced in three unique ways but still one God. It is not three separate Gods as that would be most confusing. It is celebrating three unique ways people can experience the one Divine presence.

But you would have to say it all sounds abstract, mathematical and doesn’t really connect with people’s lives. Even theologians and saints have called it all a mystery. But in simpler language the Trinity is an honest attempt to describe an experience of God. God reaches out to us in many different ways.

God connects with us in our own story and often through the love and kindness of others. God connects with us through the support of a community, the compassion of caring teams, the smile of a loved one, the hug of a friend, the beauty of nature or even a simple text from someone asking ‘How are you?’ All of these and so much more are signs of God’s presence with us. God isn’t just confined to churches or cathedrals. God’s presence is simply everywhere.

I came across a beautiful Holy Trinity prayer: Like a rock, God is our foundation. Like the horizon, God is beyond us. Like water in a jug, God is within us and in the pouring out of us. Like a pebble in the sea, we are in God. May God hold each of us in love today. Amen

Today the relics of our newest Saint, Carlo Acutis will be in St Peter and Paul’s Church all day Sunday from 7am and back in the North Cathedral on tomorrow Monday from 9am with a closing Mass of thanksgiving at 5pm. Anyone is welcome to drop in for a quiet prayer or moment of reflection. It is all part of the build-up to the 100^th anniversary of the Cork City Eucharistic procession which takes place on Sunday June 7^th at 3pm