Dear friends in Christ
The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life, says the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
It is because of the centrality of this teaching that a person enters the Church through baptism and faith in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The omission of an “s” at the end of “name” to retain the singular is deliberate. The Most Holy Trinity is one God, but three Persons.
The Trinity was expounded perhaps most profoundly through the teachings of Our Lord in St John’s Gospel. Yet it sometimes remains hard to grasp this side of eternity. Just how can one at the same time be three? The Church has always found ways to explain the mystery. St Boniface, for instance, taught the Trinity to tree-worshipping German pagans by using triangular points of their deities to denote each of the three truly divine Persons.
Later, many of the Christians of medieval Europe adopted the Scutum Fidei, the “Shield of the Trinity”, to express the doctrine, using the same triangular points but this time each linked by a bridge to a node at the centre marked with the word “God”.
Where above all is this life, this mystery, most evident? It is in the Eucharistic Mystery. Through Him, with Him, and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honour is yours Almighty Father…The Mass makes present this intimate life of God: the Three Divine Persons, as Jesus offers Himself to the Father for us, in and through the power of the Holy Spirit. This mystery we celebrate next weekend with Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ. A special feast crafted so as to elicit faith from God’s holy people, so that we can celebrate so great a reality publicly. Next Sunday afternoon there will be our Blessed Sacrament Procession. Do make an effort to attend—it is the first since 2019. Although our First Communion children lead this Procession, it is an event for the entire Parish to show our love and appreciation for what Jesus has done and left us: His very self under the appearance of the Sacred Host. May this feast be a moment for the entire Parish Family to express the gratitude which is at the heart of the Mass and the abiding presence of Our Lord in the Tabernacle.
God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale