Trinity Sunday

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There have been many different ways that the Trinity has been explained in the past. There have been many attempts to explain the significance of the mystery of what it means. The famous attempt and the one that everyone remembers is St Patrick. The one that makes sense to me is the Trinity of love and the more we discover about God the more we unravel the mystery which is his presence and love.

The word of course that confuses today’s audience is the word mystery. There are many different ideas about the word and we are also more of a people of certainty rather than mystery.  This means that we can never really define and what it is. This is true with the Trinity and the mystery that is what God is. For us, as Christians, a way to understand the mystery of the: who God is and that is what the trinity is trying to do, is to look at the person of the trinity that we can most identify with and that must be Jesus.

 He is the way the truth and the life as John tells us. The image of the invisible God as we read in Paul the word made flesh. Jesus is God’s adventure among us. Making our journey to God we start with the person of Jesus through him the mystery of God has a face a voice and a language. Here in the pages of the Gospels we hear about what Jesus did and how he challenged society and his public ministry.

But we also know from the Gospel today that he promised to be with us always “Know that I am with you always till the end of time.” This promise of the Holy Spirit that we celebrated last weekend helps us to understand more clearly this public life of Jesus for ourselves and so to understand God “ To have seen me is to have seen the Father.”

So where does this leave us? What are we to do? We get a clue again from the readings We are involved in our own mystery and also in the mystery of the Trinity “Baptise them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” We are caught up in this mystery our lives are a mystery and yet through the knowing Jesus by reading the Gospels then through him knowing the Father through the power of the Spirit we can begin to unravel the mystery of God and know a little more about the mystery of ourselves. 

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