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User’s Guide to the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Sunday, June 4, is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Mass readings: Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9; Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; John 3:16-18.
On the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, we do well to remember that we are pondering a mystery that cannot fit in our minds. So deep is this mystery that we had to “invent” a paradoxical word to summarize it: “Trinity” is a conflation of “Tri-unity,” meaning the “three-oneness” of God. In this column, we can only ponder the Trinity briefly.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says, “The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three Persons: … The divine Persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God, whole and entire” (253).
Scripture also presents images of the Trinity. Some people are dismissive of reading the Trinity into many of these texts, but the claim here is not that they prove the Trinity, but only that they hint at it.
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Sunday, June 4, is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Mass readings: Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9; Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; John 3:16-18.
On the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, we do well to remember that we are pondering a mystery that cannot fit in our minds. So deep is this mystery that we had to “invent” a paradoxical word to summarize it: “Trinity” is a conflation of “Tri-unity,” meaning the “three-oneness” of God. In this column, we can only ponder the Trinity briefly.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says, “The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three Persons: … The divine Persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God, whole and entire” (253).
Scripture also presents images of the Trinity. Some people are dismissive of reading the Trinity into many of these texts, but the claim here is not that they prove the Trinity, but only that they hint at it.
Continued below.
Trinity Sunday: ‘Glory Be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit’
User’s Guide to the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
