Firmly I believe, and Truly, God is Three and God is One. For a believer in the Trinity it is both simple and complex. Simple, because the Church’s teaching on this is clear; complex, because it is a mystery too deep to be exhausted by human understanding. God is one and the same, active and alive in the Blessed Trinity – The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit; the God who is, who was and who is to come.
As humans, though limited we are, we do not expect others to know us perfectly well in other to accept or embrace us. We don’t need to prove our existence and the mode by which we exist for others to accept that we do exist.
You don’t necessarily have to see God, touch him and feel him sensibly or rationally like Thomas, in order to believe him. Blessed are those who have not seen (sensibly demonstrated experience) yet they believe.
The mystery of the Blessed Trinity could be understood in the personality of God expressed in the actions of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; in the entire mission of our salvation – namely, the Creativity of the Father, the Nativity of the Son and the constant Activity of the Holy Spirit. God the Father created, the Son through his incarnation has redeemed the world; the Holy Spirit, proceeds from the Father and the Son to continue the mission God started at creation.
It is the same God of our fathers, who continues to reveal himself in every time and age, in the person of Jesus Christ and the actions of the Holy Spirit. He comes to us according to the need of our time. The three persons in one God; equal in one substance; undivided unity. In the mystery of the Blessed Trinity, God becomes all things to all people. This is such that whenever and from which angle you approach God he has a suitable face to embrace you – the Father’s care, the Son’s compassion and the Spirit’s consolation.
The Blessed Trinity is not a puzzle to be solved but a mystery to be lived. “Understand this today, therefore, and take it to heart: the Lord is God indeed, in heaven above as on earth beneath, he and no other.” We can only acknowledge this one true God only when we have the Spirit of Christ, which helps us cry out “Abba Father!”
The disciples, sent on mission were instructed to “Go, therefore, make disciples of all the nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.” When we are baptised, we are welcomed into the communion of the Blessed Trinity, sent out on a mission to bring others to share in this communion. The very nature of the Church is her Life, Mission and Communion. Therefore, our communion is inspired by the Blessed Trinity; our mission is that of the Blessed Trinity and our ultimate goal is to share the life of the Blessed Trinity in eternity.
