It's a Mystery: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, June 11, 2017
Today is Trinity Sunday : We preachers are called to say something thoughtful and doctrinally accurate about the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We are reminded how Catholics sometimes need to use big words. These are just to help us understand more precisely the mystery of God, who is a three-personed God. When we say “consubstantial with the Father” in the Creed today, we are grasping at what it means to recognize Christ as fully God, and yet fully man. The church wrestled in prayer and study and debate for nearly 500 years to try to get this right. When we come to celebrate this Mass, this feast, what we are doing is reminding ourselves of the faith we profess together immediately after this homily in the Creed, we recall the content of our faith, in whom we believe in and why we believe. It is the love of God, the mercy of God, the might, the power of God that we celebrate. And we honor, recognize, worship, adore, and clearly affirm without any ambiguity our belief in