Dear Parishioners and Friends,
Trinity Sunday can sometimes be a very difficult Sunday for
preaching. The Holy Trinity is the most fundamental dogma of our faith yet is
it the most mysterious. To know of the Trinity is to probe the very heart of
who God is and to touch upon His interior life.
When we say that we believe in the Holy Trinity we are
professing the belief that God is one in three. We are saying that there is one
Lord and one God in three Divine Persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There
are not three lords but one Lord. There are not three gods but one God. The
divine unity is such that it is actually a perfect communion of persons in
which each person is “consubstantial” with the other. “The divine persons do
not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and
entire” (CCC, 253).
We can try to understand the Trinity in terms of love. The
Father eternally and perfectly loves the Son. The Son returns that love in the
same eternal and perfect way. The Holy Spirit IS their eternal, perfect love in
Person.
If all this boggles your mind, do not worry. If we would
ever think we understood the very heart of who God is, we can be sure that we
have not even begun to understand Him. After all, He is God and we are not.
In Christ,
Msgr. Baker
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