Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, the uniquely Christian core belief, that God is at the same time one God, but also three distinct persons. Other faiths acknowledge God, but only Christians acknowledge his trinitarian nature – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
God our Father we know as creator and founder of all reality as we know it. He is perhaps our most immediately thought of incarnation of God. Yet, we also know and follow the Son, Jesus Christ, who came to earth and shared our human form while still fully God. He lived among us, taught us, healed us, and ultimately died for us, so that we might have hope in His resurrection, and in a resurrected relationship with the Father. Jesus, as the Son who saved us, is our Mediator and High Priest before the Father, and is our Judge because He existed as one of us and experienced all of our conditions except sin. When He ascended back to Heaven, He did not leave us alone, but left us with the Holy Spirit to guide us. The Holy Spirit is often described as the love that exists between the Father and the Son and completes the trinitarian circle and nature of God as a whole. It is the Holy Spirit who guides us and comes to us as that quiet voice that is God revealing himself to us in our daily lives.
The nature of God, we acknowledge as a mystery. Three, and yet one. Each distinct, and yet all the one true God. As human beings confined to a physical reality, this is a difficult thing to grasp and understand, yet we must think beyond this reality, and allow ourselves to acknowledge that the One who existed before the fabric or time and space was even created is not constrained in the manner that we are, and so can exist in whole form that is both singular and trinitarian without conflict to either logic or faith. God is perfect, and His perfection comes to us in love, in all of the persons of the Trinity.
The Deacons Bench 