The Mystery of the Trinity

06-15-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity which is a mystery difficult to comprehend. in our daily life, we begin every one of our prayers, activities, programmes or works with the sign of the cross and call upon God, '' In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.'' Even though we remember the Trinity several times a day, it is difficult to comprehend the full meaning because the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit we invoke constitute a great Mystery. The Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity consists of this; the Father is God, The Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God and yet there are not three Gods, but only one God with three attributes.

We have the Father who is a creator, Son, the Redeemer, and Holy Spirit the Sanctifier and the counsellor. This is the Mystery of the Trinity of Persons in the one God. If one were to seek for comparison in order to try to grasp a little of this mystery, the only one that is completely adequate is that which Jesus himself gave us, when He said that just as the living Father has sent him, he is sending His disciples. they have to go and baptize all in the name of the Trinity. He also tells us that he, the Spirit and the Father are one and will be with them. Today's Gospel Reading from John reaffirms the three-fold action of the Blessed Trinity in our lives. Both, the Father and the Son have sent the Holy Spirit into the world as the Spirit of truth to guide us in truth.

As Jesus did not speak of His own accord but spoke what He heard from the Father, so also the Holy Spirit will not speak on His own but will speak of what He hears. we hear those words of Jesus from the Last Discourse, where He says; '' I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.'' already He had promised them the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, to strengthen and console them and recall to their minds the truths He had taught them. in today's text, Jesus repeats the promise and tells them that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son and that the truths He will reveal to them will be those which the Father and the Son want revealing the work of Christ and by consolidating it, the Spirit will give glory to Jesus who in turn gives glory to the Father.

The feast of the Holy Trinity reminds us that God is a family of love. We proclaim our firm belief that in one God there are three persons. What scripture reveals to us is a unity of three real persons. We need our faith and trust in the word of God that this Trinitarian God is always in our life who guides us and makes our being a reality. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the ''hierarchy of the truths of faith''. The whole history of salvation is identical with the history to men and reconciles and unites with himself those who turn away from sin''. This feast is a reminder to pray with much greater meaning and respectfulness than most common of all prayers. it combines both the mystery of the Trinity and the mystery of our salvation through Jesus' suffering, death, and rising to life.

The mystery of the Trinity tells us that the Son is not the Father and the Father is not the Son and yet both are but a single God. When the Son receives everything from the Father, He becomes similar to the Father, sharing what is proper to this Father. Finally, if there is a Spirit that presides over the whole of this Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, it is the Spirit of Love.