{"id":11813,"date":"2021-05-30T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/?p=11813"},"modified":"2022-11-30T01:09:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:09:27","slug":"god-in-his-deepest-mystery-is-not-a-solitude-but-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2021\/05\/god-in-his-deepest-mystery-is-not-a-solitude-but-a-family\/","title":{"rendered":"God in his deepest mystery is not a solitude but a family,"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Where One is Three<br>\nOnly as God can be<br>\nFather, Son &amp; Holy Ghost<br>\nIs there one you relate to most?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Problem? God can hear it<br>\nTrue Love in Love in Love<br>\n1+1+1=1<br>\nIf the 3 = one is my math done?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No, don\u2019t you see He is the Holy Trinity<br>\nOur triune God for infinity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jesus seems more tangible, human like us<br>\nIn his Father he did trust<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Paraclete on Pentecost Holy Spirit be<br>\nFull of holy wisdom, gifts for you and me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The three equally God out of Love<br>\nA father Abba, a God person Jesus &amp; @ the symbol of the Dove<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is a mystery, a God gift<br>\nIn our soul the Trinity lift<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11818\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2021\/05\/Trifacial_Trinity-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For to us Trinitarians (if I may say it with reverence) \u2013 to us God Himself is a society. It is indeed a fathomless mystery of theology, and even if I were theologian enough to deal with it directly, it would not be relevant to do so here. Suffice it to say here that this triple enigma is as comforting as wine and open as an English fireside; that this thing that bewilders the intellect utterly quiets the heart: but out of the desert, from the dry places and, the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.<br>\n<strong>G.K. Chesterton,<\/strong> The Romance of Orthodoxy, <strong>chapter 8 Orthodoxy,<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wkYM9OvX7f8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">If I were to choose just one biblical verse to explain the Trinity, I would not choose Matthew 28:19 (\u201cBaptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit\u201d) because although it introduces the persons of the Trinity, it can be construed for Tritheism.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I would choose 1 John 4:8, \u201cGod is love\u201d because it reveals that the very being of God is love, i.e. a relationship of persons. In love, there is the Lover (Father), the Beloved (Son), and their shared Love (Holy Spirit).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What makes Christianity different is not the revelation that God is one, that would suggest a God whose very being is isolation and creation as nuisance, a falling apart from the One. The uniqueness of Christianity is the revelation that \u201cGod is love\u201d i.e. a Triune God, and so creation itself is an expression and overflowing gift of love.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">God is love, and perfect love cast out all fear!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trinity Sunday is the day we commemorate the in-explainable doctrine that underlines our entire belief in the concept of God. Trinity Sunday is the day I originally meant to publish this, but I didn\u2019t finish it on time, so I decided to publish it the day after the solemnity of the transfiguration.<\/p>\n<p>We as Catholics are monotheists meaning we believe there is one God. We share this belief with the Jewish and Muslim faiths. \u00a0Jewish theology is the foundation for Christianity and Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Barron Explains It All<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IqjFe3AoZYw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here is one of the best explanations of the Trinity I have ever read from the creator of Narnia\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps the best way to think of it is this. I asked you just now to imagine those two books, and probably most of you did. That is, you made an act of imagination and as a result you had a mental picture. Quite obviously your act of imagining was the cause and the mental picture the result. But that does not mean that you first did the imagining and then got the picture. The moment you did it, the picture was there. Your will was keeping the picture before you all the time. Yet that act of will and the picture began at exactly the same moment and ended at the same moment. If there were a Being who had always existed and had always been imagining one thing, his act would always have been producing a mental picture; but the picture would be just as eternal as the act.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way we must think of the Son always, so to speak, streaming forth from the Father, like light from a lamp, or heat from a fire, or thoughts from a mind. He is the self-expression of the Father-what the Father has to say. And there never was a time when He was not saying it.\u00a0 Father and Son is more like the relation between the First and Second Persons than anything else we can think of. Much the most important thing to know is that it is a relation of love. The Father delights in His Son; the Son looks up to His Father.<\/p>\n<p>In Christianity God is not a static thing-not even a person-but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance. The union between the Father and Son is such a live concrete thing that this union itself is also a Person. I know this is almost inconceivable, but look at it thus. You know that among human beings, when they get together in a family, or a club, or a trade union, people talk about the \u201cspirit\u201d of that family, or club, or trade union. They talk about its \u201cspirit\u201d because the individual members, when they are together, do really develop particular ways of talking and behaving which they would not have if they were apart. It is as if a sort of communal personality came into existence. Of course, it is not a real person: it is only rather like a person. But that is just one of the differences between God and us. What grows out of the joint life of the Father and Son is a real Person, is in fact I the Third of the three Persons who are God.<br>\n<strong>-C. S. Lewis,<\/strong> Mere Christianity Book 4 Beyond Personality: Or First Steps in The Doctrine Of The Trinity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Divine revelation seems to drip slowly from the infinite to his finite earthly creation as God reveals himself over the centuries. First God reveals himself as one and then as 3 distinct persons, but still only one God. 3 in 1. Say what? As Christians who believe in the Trinity, and who are baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, many of us have trouble really explaining the 3 persons in one God to anyone.\u00a0 It is easier to brush it off as something you just believe, because you might have trouble explaining the crazy concept to anyone who might want to dig deeper instead of just trusting what they learned in catechism class as a child.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-754 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2020\/06\/Trinity-at-Starbucks-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We face the same dilemma as St. Augustine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ll bet many of you know the old story of St. Augustine walking along the beach one day, taking a break from writing his treatise on the Trinity, whose Solemnity we celebrate this week.\u00a0 The great scholar just couldn\u2019t get his mind around this great mystery.\u00a0 The story goes that he saw a little boy digging a hole in the sand, and then running to the ocean, filling up his hands with the seawater, running back to the hole and emptying the water into the hole.\u00a0 Augustine watched as the child went back and forth several times. Finally he said to the boy, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d\u00a0 The boy said, \u201cTrying to fill that hole with the ocean.\u201d And Augustine said, \u201cYou\u2019ll never fit the ocean in that hole.\u201d\u00a0 And the boy said, \u201cNeither will you be able to fit the Trinity into your mind.\u201d<br>\n<strong>James Martin, S.J. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2019\/06\/14\/st-augustines-puzzle-how-can-we-understand-trinity\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">, <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2019\/06\/14\/st-augustines-puzzle-how-can-we-understand-trinity\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">St. Augustine\u2019s puzzle: how can we understand the Trinity?<\/a> \u00a0(June 14, 2019<strong>) America Magazine <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A faithful and overwhelmed Catholic might respond, \u201cSee even Dr. Augustine couldn\u2019t get it and he was a holy smart saint. Me, I\u2019m just a dumb lay person. Please do not ask me why Jesus prayed to the Father; He is also God after all.\u00a0 Why was the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete sent down when Jesus had already done His earthly work as fully human and fully divine and we already knew that God was our Father?\u00a0 My answer would be, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 The church teaches it and anyway it is in the Bible.\u00a0 It\u2019s a mystery. Done and Closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okay. There is no reason to throw in the metaphysical towel. The church through the centuries has done its children the great service of unraveling this great mystery of faith and has given us many good explanations of it through saints, theologians and other faithful Catholic thinkers. \u00a0We also have analogies and images that try and help shape our thoughts. When we imagine God as Father, Son and Spirit we think of the three in one.\u00a0 We may have been taught to imagine 2 people and a dove all equaling God.\u00a0 We might imagine a shamrock or any one object that has three pieces to help us understand.\u00a0 But God is so much more than what a 3-leaf clover can cover. He is The God who can do anything.\u00a0 God does not have to look like things we can see on Earth.\u00a0 God does not have a gender.\u00a0 Humans need something tangible, something they can relate to because \u201cEye has not Seen, nor Ear heard: 1 Corinthians 2:9\u201d While this verse speaks of heaven might it also speak of our Triune God?<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. Okay. Donall and Conall do a much better job of explaining the Trinity then I can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQLfgaUoQCw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another way of looking at God besides a spiritual formula is to think of him as a family.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">God in his deepest mystery is not a solitude but a family,<\/span><\/strong> since he has in himself fatherhood, sonship and the essence of the family which is love.\u201d<\/em><em>\u2014John Paul II<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A family of singers, united in one song are individual distinct voices, but are one in chorus.<\/p>\n<p>The family of stories consisting of The Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers and The Return of the King are three distinct books but One complete Story.<\/p>\n<p>A woman came from the rib of man. The two are separate but when they engage in the marginal act, they become one flesh. The love between them is a person whom they give a name nine months later. Unless it\u2019s twins or triplets, then they have to come up with more names.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of family is often best expressed, not in high falutin jargon but in poetry (like the one above).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I often feel that poetic language fits the mystery better than sterile philosophical terms. There are many quotes from the saints that fulfill this mystical quality, and which I wish more non-Christians familiarized themselves with before broaching the discussion topic. It also helps to show the way in which the Trinity is spoken of in Christian devotional life, as a living, breathing force of faith.<\/p>\n<p>For example, St. John of the Cross wrote: \u201cThe Blessed Trinity inhabits the soul by divinely illuminating its intellect with the wisdom of the Son, delighting its will in the Holy Spirit and absorbing it powerfully and mightily in the unfathomed embrace of the Father\u2019s sweetness.\u201d<br>\n<strong>Avellina Balestri<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/longbowsandrosarybeads\/2020\/06\/the-talk-of-the-three-in-one\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Talk of the Three-in-One<\/a> (June 7, 2020) <strong>Longbows &amp; Rosary Beads<\/strong>@ Patheos Catholic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, to conclude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The Trinity is a Mystery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Church gives us explanations and analogies to help us understand the Mystery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The concept of the Family is the best explanation of this mystery and is best expressed in poetry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No Catholic should be overwhelmed by trying to explain an ocean sized concept from their pea-sized brain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Go and ponder what you have learned<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the Name of the Father,<br>\nIn the Name of the Son, and<br>\nIn the Name of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Amen.<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AgHrNNM23p8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where One is Three Only as God can be Father, Son &amp; Holy Ghost Is there one you relate to most? 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