This Sunday is the Feast of the Holy Trinity and wisdom
would be wise to advise us to say as little as possible about the mystery that
defies definition. Or if we are so bold to attempt an analogy we should preface
everything we say with St. Paul’s word picture of the temporal peering into the
eternal, “Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror…” or the words of Job
after God showed up. “I’ve spoken of things too great for me to understand.”
That doesn’t mean there isn’t something to say. It just means an analogy easily
understood will always be a poor reflection of a mystery. Like a
joke that has to be explained it loses something in the translation. So the
best thing to be said is that the unity of the Trinity is not to be explained
to the human mind but believed in the human heart. What we are to believe is
that the unity of the Trinity is the ultimate expression love. In the creative
unity of love Father Son Spirit calls forth from nothing all that is and it is
very good. In the redeeming unity of love Father Son Spirit dies for the
created whose lust for creator status turned the goodness of creation into
something less. In the sustaining unity of love Father Son Spirit rejoicing in
the inhabited world and delighting in the human race continually recreates us
so that the goodness of God’s creation, light and love, might overcome the
darkness and death of human design. Father Son Spirit is the Unity of Love beyond
knowing. The Good News is that the Unity of Love beyond knowing knows us and that is all we need to
know to be holy and whole.
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