Scripture Reflections for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

“Trinity Sunday, when we talk about the persons within the unity of God, this is not just some arcane theological preoccupation but rather belongs to the very heart and the very essence of the faith.”

“when we encounter the fullness of God through the love of another, we realize the healing power of mercy and discover the capacity to be fully what God created each of us to be”

“Whatever else we might be doing in life, this is the one calling we all share: to know God, to love him and to share in the life of the Blessed Trinity”

“There is a tendency to say ‘the Trinity is a mystery’ and then move on...We should always be at pains to know the knowable. What is not a mystery should not be made mysterious by us.”

“all that I believe that God asks of us at any given moment is a surrender to his mercy so that we can become vessels and people who go out in his name and share his love with others”

“How do we interpret that Word? Well, theologians and saints and scholars can give you insights, to be sure, but the best and finally sole reliable interpreter would be the author himself...the Holy Spirit operating in this interpretive manner up and down the centuries of the Church's life.”

“The Holy Trinity is a relationship of communion; likewise, we are called to mirror equality and mutuality in our families, communities, and other groupings”

“As one cannot speak without uttering one’s breath, so the Son cannot proceed from the Father without the Spirit”

“Wow! God residing in me and residing in the church can help me understand the foundational and greatest Mystery: That God is one God in three persons.”

“God, by his very nature, lacks nothing, needs nothing. Everything he does as Creator he does not for his sake but for ours, and yet he truly delights in creating us and holding us in being.”

“Faith is having our eyes strengthened and opened further by God about his life as Father, Son and Holy Spirit and our sharing in the life of the Holy Trinity. A life of persons in love.”

“When we experience what it truly means to be in relationship, we can begin to get a sense of what the Trinity is about”

“God the Father is no one’s child; his Son is not a parent. Precisely as Father and precisely as Son, they do not have any thing in common. Precisely as God, they have the one indivisible Divine Being “in common”.”

“It is a beautiful thought to think that we were created in joy, by God’s loving hand”

“No formula can ever capture the reality of God because God is too rich to ever be captured, even half adequately, in imagination, thought, and word. The God that atheism rejects is precisely a conceptualized God, a God captured in a picture.”

“In our world, not all relationships are relationships of love. We can be bound to one another by hatred, by competition, by anger. Yet even there, it is love that lurks at the heart of things.”

“To ignore or simplify the Trinity is to ignore or simplify Christian experience of God. It is to rob ourselves of the richness of the Christian encounter with God.”

“The doctrine of the Trinity, so far from belittling the unity of God, reveals the richness of his Being”

“God is community – and only in opening our lives in gracious hospitality will we ever understand that”

“this divine life, this community that God is, wants to communicate now with us...God does it out of a sheer generous desire to communicate his life and with us human creatures he wants us to become sharers in the very life that he is.”

“The masculine Trinity has imprisoned our imagination for too long. Our tangible, static nouns and pronouns must be released. Our vision set free.”

“What does the Trinity do? It plays. What do the three persons do? They delight in each other's presence...Christians, we imitate the Trinity when we too can delight in what is good and right and beautiful around us. We play our way into the deepest truth about the Trinity.”

“God makes the world not because he needs it but because God's love is so rich and is so hot and is so intense that it spills over into the world that we know”