For What It's Worth by Erin

Our great Mysteries of Faith… The Easter season is officially over, and on the heels of Pentecost the church moves us back into Ordinary Time. This portion of OT is marked by the great feasts or solemnities central to the mysteries of our faith. So this Sunday and next, pay attention!

Now, most of our feasts and solemnities tell us what God has done (the Passion, the mystery of the Eucharist), but this Sunday is Trinity Sunday. This Sunday tells us who GOD IS! Now I’d like to be able to tell you the intricacies of the central mystery of our Christian faith in a bulletin space the size of a post-it note. Instead I will let the Catechism do the talking.

As Christians, we are baptized “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”. Baptized and Confirmed, we said “yes” to believing in this. Now this mystery is “hidden in God” and can never be known unless revealed by God. But His inmost Being as Holy Trinity is inaccessible to reason alone. We don’t understand the Trinity by being smart. We can’t “get” this by ourselves. There is a reason that we are baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit because one of the graces or gifts of our Baptism is the
revelation of the Trinity itself.

What we understand of the Trinity is a sheer gift from the Trinitarian God: Father, Son and Spirit. Having this grace deepens our relationship with the three persons of this one Triune God, and we express this relationship
every time we make the sign of the cross. Let’s thank God today for this mystery of our faith, the mystery of Who God is.

Oh most Holy Trinity, undivided unity, holy God, mighty God, God immortal be adored!” Happy Feast of the Holy Trinity, everybody! +