The Triune God

Because of God’s revelation we Catholics are able to profess that there are three Persons in one God. The Trinity is a profound mystery of God—a strict mystery of the Faith—one that we would have never known without God’s gracious self-disclosure.

But the knowledge that we have of the Blessed Trinity is meant to be more than academic knowledge. It is meant to show us something of the inner life of God to enhance our love of God and to edify our spiritual life.

What is more, the doctrine of the Trinity grants us some insight into how we are to live in relationship to God and to one another.

God is a perfect society—the perfect community of love. As human persons we are not meant to live in isolation. To actualize oneself as a person means to truly live in relation to other persons, especially to the totally Other three Divine Persons in one God.

Meditating on the mystery of the Trinity aids us in escaping both the individualism and the collectivism of the post-modern world. Individualism exalts the individual as being completely autonomous from family or State or God or religion, responsible to no one but to self. Collectivism denigrates the individual human person, exterminates human freedom, and promotes only the masses.

What both individualism and collectivism ignore is the authentic dignity of the human person, which is to live freely and responsibly in love.

Love then is the adhesive but also the lubricant the keeps any community— the family, the city, the nation, the Church—alive.

Let us beseech Our Lady, the Immaculate Lily of the Trinity, fairest Daughter of the Father, Virgin Mother of the Son, and purest Bride of the Holy Spirit, to increase our knowledge and love for the Holy Trinity.