Trinity

Sometimes I am lead to the opinion that Christ, after his resurrection, has completed his mission and is no longer directly involved in the salivation process of humans. He was born of a virgin, completed His mission of establishing God’s church on earth by conquering sin and death through His obedience to the cross and resurrection from the dead and has returned to the Father.  Of course, he will involve Himself again when He returns for the general judgment at the end of time.  But now He sits at the right hand of the Father and sends out the Holy Spirit as our paraclete, counselor and healer.  I feel that I am guided by the Holy Spirit. “In him (Christ) you too learned to believe, and had the seal set on your faith by the promised gift of the Holy Spirit.” Ephesians 1:13.  Paul tells us that after Christ rose, He sent down the Holy Spirit as our helper and teacher to give us an “inner eye” of discernment.  Christ is in Heaven but God “has put everything under his (Christ) dominion, and made him (Christ) the head to which the whole Church is joined, so that the Church is his body, the completion of him who everywhere and in all things is complete.”  Ephesians 1:22-23. It is by the power of the Holy Spirit that bread and wine is changed into the body and blood of Christ in our Mass today.  So Christ is still present on earth in the form of the Eucharist. Thus says Paul, “united in the same Spirit (Holy Spirit), we have access through him (Christ) to the Father (God).” Paul says that Christ has now become the Catholic Church (the body of Christ) and we take part in our redemption through the Eucharist in the Church. Christ becomes our intercessor between man and God “so that God may find in you a dwelling-place for his Spirit.” Ephesians 2:22. It is the trinity, then, that begins, takes part in and ends this process for salvation.  God, even though we humans have never seen God and may never actually see Him, uses the Son and the Spirit, the two other parts of His divine nature, to accomplish on earth His divine will. Christ, even though He has come and gone, is still with us in the Eucharist enlivened by the Holy Spirit. I can see now that we truly have God with us. Although Christ is no longer physically with us in human form, He still makes Himself available to us through the Eucharist. And of course the trinity is accessible through the Holy Spirit who is always present and waiting to be found by those who would seek Him..