This Sunday, we celebrate the Holy Trinity. We celebrate the three persons in one God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Questions:

Day 1: The first reading speaks of the encounter of Moses and God. Moses wanted to see God's glory. God did not allow Moses to see his face because Moses would die if he did. Instead, God put Moses into a cleft and as he passed, he proclaimed his name. By proclaiming his name, God is revealing himself.

• The passage says that God descended in the cloud and stood with him there. God speaks in the midst of the darkness. Are you in despair or in trouble? Just as he was with Moses in the midst of the darkness. He is with you. Is there anything you want to tell the Lord?

• Even if Moses did not see God, God was standing beside him. If you feel abandoned by God, this is the time when God is closest to you. Pour out your miseries to God. Speak to him.

• The first thing God mentioned about his name is that he is a God merciful and gracious. What did he mean by that?

• The mercy of God is accessible to everyone. Do you need the mercy of God? What will you say to him?

Day 2: God continues to reveal himself to Moses.

• The Lord says that he is slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Does this mean that one can go on sinning without repentance since God will not get angry and loves them anyway?

• God continues to say that he forgives iniquity and transgression and sin. Are there sins that you have committed before that you have not repented? God forgives sins if there is repentance. What do you want to tell the Lord?

• The last revelation of God says that he does not clear the guilty and instead, he visits the iniquity of the parents on their children and the children's children. What does this say about sin and the consequences of sin?

• How can you reconcile God's love for humanity and his punishment for sin?

Day 3: The psalm is taken from the praises of the three young men who were thrown into a fiery furnace. This is a psalm of praises to God. The most repeated phrase in this prayer is: praiseworthy and glorious above all forever.

• What does the phrase: “praiseworthy and glorious above all forever” mean?

• What are we praising God for?

• What picture of God does this psalm show? Is it consistent with your picture of God? If not, why and what should you do to change your picture of God?

Day 4: The second reading was a letter from Paul to the community in Corinth. In this letter, Paul was defending himself to the community at Corinth. He compared himself to the others who preached Jesus and in the end, he spoke of visions that he saw. The second reading it the end of his letter. St. Paul asked the Corinthians to put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another and to live in peace.

• What did he mean when he asked the Corinthians to put things in order?

• Read the entire chapter 13. What did he mean when he asked them to listen to his appeal?

• What did he mean when he asked them to agree with one another? How can you agree with one another?

• What did he mean when he asked them to live in peace? How can you live in peace?

Day 5: We continue with the second reading.

• St. Paul says that the God of love and peace will be with you when the Corinthians do the four things he asked them to do, as mentioned in Day 4 questions. Why?

• St. Paul ends with the verse we often hear at the start of mass, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you”. What did he mean by the grace of Jesus?

• What did he mean by the love of God?

• What did he mean by the fellowship of the Holy Spirit?

Day 6: The gospel reading is part of the discussion of Jesus with Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a Pharisee who came to Jesus at night and talked to him. In their conversation, Jesus told Nicodemus about the need to be born from above, to which Nicodemus did not understand.

• Jesus said that God so loved the world. This includes you. How is God's love relevant to you?

• Jesus said that God gave his only Son to you. How is this relevant to you?

• Jesus continues to say that whoever believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. What does it mean to believe in Jesus? How do you show that you believe in him?

• What is eternal life to you? Do you want to have eternal life? What do you want to tell Jesus?

Day 7: We continue in the discourse of Jesus to Nicodemus. Jesus said that God sent him not to condemn the world but to save the world.

• If Jesus did not come to condemn the world, why is there punishment for sin?

• Jesus came to save the world. This means that he came to save you. Do you believe that you have to be saved? What is in you that needs the salvation of Jesus?

• In these three verses, the words believe and condemn appear three times each. This means that these two words are important. What does believing in Jesus mean? What does condemnation mean?

• If you do not believe that Jesus has to save you, how can you reconcile that belief with what Jesus said, that he came to save the world (meaning, all of creation, which includes you)?

• What do you want to say to Jesus?