Written for Sacred Heart Parish Bulletin, Warner Robins
Many priests and seminarians joke that to pass an exam on the Trinity, you just need to write or say “it’s mystery” and you pass. The joke is funny but it misses the point completely of what a mystery is.
A mystery, though it can never be fully understood, invites us to continuously explore it, not to dismiss it quickly as an incomprehensible thing. For example, a murder mystery invites FBI agents to continue investigating and exploring, not to dismiss the case as a mystery.
The mystery of the Trinity invites us to approach it in awe as we seek to understand it. It’s a mystery that invites for continuous exploration and investigation. The Trinity is a mystery because you can keep talking about it without evern fully wrappping your mind around it, not because there is nothing to say about it.
The word itself, Trinity, has been assigned my human minds to describe this mystery since Scripture does not give it a name. Yes, the word Trinity is non-Scriptural, you will not find it in the Bible, but the mystery it describes permeates the New Testament.
Let us give honor and glory to our Trinue God today, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three persons yet one God.
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