A lot of people think of the Most Holy Trinity as a mystery that we can’t really understand, so they give up or don’t try. The truth is that we aren’t meant to really understand the mystery of the Trinity but to love it. The mystery keeps us restless until we find and rest in God.
Today in the church we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. We may think the doctrine of the Trinity is too complicated or abstract to make much of a difference in our daily life. Yet “the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching” (CCC 234).
The Trinity is who God really is: a real, personal, wise, and loving God. And because he has revealed to us who he really is, we can really speak to him and love him.
“O my Three, my all, my beatitude, infinite solitude, immensity in which I lose myself…. Bury yourself in me that I may bury myself in you until I depart to contemplate in your light the abyss of your greatness” – Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
Life with the Trinity is truly the whole point of the Christian faith and the goal of every human life.
Most Holy Trinity, Spirit of truth, help us live the mystery of Your love and guide us to Your truth. Amen
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