So today we gather to celebrate the wonderful
Feast Day of the Blessed Trinity.
I remember being in grade school
And trying to understand what the Trinity,
How can we have three persons in this one God?
And the best answer from the Sisters
And from others that I ever heard is that it is a mystery.
And indeed they’re right.
It is a mystery.
Three persons – one God,
And a God in so many ways who is ineffable.
The word ineffable meaning:
We simply can’t begin to comprehend the magnificence
And the love of God in our lives.
And so we try.
And one of the great Catechists over the ages,
One of the great teachers,
One of the great Saints of our Church
Taught about the Trinity in this way.
A Saint that we’re also familiar with, St. Patrick.
Patrick, when he was teaching his people,
Those who would listen,
Those would be his Disciples and followers
And those who would join him in the mission of the Church.
And they said, “Tell us about this Trinity.”
And Patrick, in his great wisdom, reached down
And he plucked a three-leaf clover.
And he said, “This is a good symbol
Of what the Trinity is all about.
It’s one three-leaf clover.
It has one stem.
It has three leaves.”
Think of the Trinity in this simple, catechetical term.
One God, three persons.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
A way about thinking about the Trinity,
And there are so many ways.
Again, God is ineffable, unknowing, but we try.
We struggle with our own limitations.
But it’s what the Trinity does for us in our lives of Faith.
How God’s love is with us in every moment of our lives.
The Father, who is the Creator of all things,
Who created you and me and this magnificent world
That we live in.
God the Father, Creator of all things,
Who so loves the world that he sends his Son, Jesus,
The Word made flesh.
And Jesus comes to us as Teacher.
He comes to us as the Redeemer.
The one who brings Salvation and forgiveness to all of us.
And the love of the Father and the love of the Son,
They’re in this constant motion of love for one another,
And out of their love something good comes.
It’s called Spiration, and they generate the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit that’s given to us as a gift on Pentecost.
The Holy Spirit that is a great reminder to all of us
Of the teachings of the Lord and the love of God in our lives.
The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit that sanctifies your life and my life
So that we can be faithful Disciples.