What is the Trinity?

Notice the readings duck the question.

It is mystery, so what is a mystery?

Remind us there are limits to our knowledge. (Example: electricity)

Our temptation: to be omniscient like God

Fr. Lopez sign in his classroom: There is a God and You Are Not Him

It is a gift to us

Dwell in his majesty, his authority, his love

Explained as a communion of love

Loving Father Loves the Loving Son who Loves the Loving Father and their Love is the Holy Spirit

Key word is Communion

Communion is not Community

Community is coming together but remaining independent

That’s us: St. Paul to Corinthians – “live in peace.”

Communion is greater, and a mystery

How do I become one with God yet not lose my identity?

He made me to be one with Him, made us in His image

I receive Him in Holy Communion — What about the rest of the time?

St. Paul to the Romans: a slave to Christ

I must try to abandon myself to His love

Die to self as He died on the Cross

At Mass: receive his divinity into my body — that’s a Holy Communion

After Mass: sent to share the grace I received

Mystically share the Love of the Trinity to a world that has forgotten the Gospel