Trinity and Love - Trinity Sunday - June 7th, 2020

Happy Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity!  Today we focus on the mystery of the One True God.  Our God is Three Divine Persons and we profess this every time we make the sign of the Cross and list each person the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  The greeting I used at the beginning of Mass manifests the Trinity and quotes our second reading, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”  Our God is One in His Divinity and three in Personhood.  Listen to my homily to learn more!


Trinity and Love - Trinity Sunday - June 7th, 2020

Athanasian Creed Excerpt Describing the Trinity

We worship One God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Spirit. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is One, the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.

Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit; the Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated; the father infinite, the Son infinite, and the Holy Spirit infinite; the Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal. And yet not three eternals but one eternal, as also not three infinites, nor three uncreated, but one uncreated, and one infinite…

So, the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; and yet not three Gods but one God… For like as we are compelled by Christian truth to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be both God; so are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say, there be three Gods.

The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made nor created but begotten. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and the Son, not made nor created nor begotten but proceeding. So, there is one Father not three Fathers, one Son not three Sons, and Holy Spirit not three Holy Spirits. And in this Trinity, there is nothing before or after, nothing greater or less, but the whole three Persons are coeternal together and coequal.

So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the trinity in Unity and the Unity in Trinity is to be worshipped.