Blog Post 5/26/2024 – Thoughts on the Trinity on The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

 

Look at the sun: see The Father, watch Jesus the light and the experience the Holy Spirit in the warmth.  

My favorite metaphor for the Trinity was offered by the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, “Every act of speech consists of a speaker, a word, and the breath that animates the voice and enables the word to be spoken…. Within the Trinity the Father is the speaker, the Son is the word, and the Holy Spirit is the breath.” 

[Hans Urs von Balthasar’s description of the Trinity in Longing to See Your Face by Thomas Scirghi, p.37]               

Tertullian, one of the theologians of the early church, who explained the Trinity this way, God the Father is "a deep root, the Son as the shoot that breaks forth into the world, and the Spirit as that which spreads beauty and fragrance.”

 

Today set aside some time to dwell in the Trinity.

 

May God Be Praised.