The Most Holy Trinity

Maria Hayes • June 20, 2025

"IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT"

Catechism of the Catholic Church

232 "The faith of all Christians rests on the Trinity."

 

234 The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in Himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the ‘hierarchy of the truths of faith’. The whole history of salvation is identical with the history of the way and the means by which the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, reveals Himself to men” and reconciles and unites with Himself those who turn away from sin".

 

236 The Fathers of the Church distinguish between theology (theologia) and economy (oikonomia). "Theology" refers to the mystery of God's inmost life within the Blessed Trinity and "economy" to all the works by which God reveals himself and communicates his life. Through the oikonomia the theologia is revealed to us; but conversely, the theologia illuminates the whole oikonomia. God's works reveal who he is in himself; the mystery of his inmost being enlightens our understanding of all his works. So it is, analogously, among human persons. A person discloses himself in his actions, and the better we know a person, the better we understand his actions.

 

237 The Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the "mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God".58 To be sure, God has left traces of his Trinitarian being in his work of creation and in his Revelation throughout the Old Testament. But his inmost Being as Holy Trinity is a mystery that is inaccessible to reason alone or even to Israel's faith before the Incarnation of God's Son and the sending of the Holy Spirit.

 

It is an amazing reality that the One True God is a Holy Trinity of Three Persons. And that, in fact, our Triune God has revealed His innermost reality of communion and love by intimate communion with the human race through the love of the Son for the Father in the Spirit. As Jesus the Son walked, taught, suffered, died & rose for us, like us, & with us to unite us to the Father in the Spirit, we were invited into deeper personal relationship with God. God was not far away or just Almighty. God is close & comforting. God is relational internally as Father, Son, & Holy Spirit and externally as God to human person through the fully human Person of Jesus who is equally fully God. Our Triune God amazingly wants to bring us into the mighty Mystery of His own mystical love. A life that becomes similarly true for each of us by Baptism in the Holy Spirit & water. The Father has been revealed by the Incarnate Son. And together, the Father & Son have revealed & shared the Holy Spirit. Each act, each progression, each revelation is a deeper invitation into the love & communion of God Himself. We were never made for individualism or isolation. We were made from Communion for communion always & eternally.

 

Nothing Less than saints for the Holy Family of God.

Holy Family, Living Witness to Triune Love & Communion, Pray for us.

~ Fr Jeremy M. Gries

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