Holy Trinity Sunday - 4 June 2023
Dear Friends, today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity and the readings fittingly give us an insight into the nature of God. But before we get to the readings a little note on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Right at the outset we need to acknowledge that the Trinity is absolute mystery, it transcends our human capacity for understanding. However, from the Scriptures and the tradition of the Church, we believe that God is Triune. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are coequal and coeternal and distinct from each other. There are three persons in One God. One of the most important aspects of the Holy Trinity is the relationality between the three persons. In the Trinitarian communion, there is complete equality. No higher, no lower; no before, no after; no superior, no inferior. As all of us are created in the image and likeness of God, God who is the Trinity, God who is communion, by nature we all are communitarian. We cannot live in isolation. We are made to ...