On Sunday we will ponder the Holy Trinity with greater intention than usual because it will be Trinity Sunday.
St Augustine of Hippo famously said, "If you do not believe in the Holy Trinity, you will lose your soul. If you try to understand the Holy Trinity, you will lose your mind."
Holding the tension of St Augustine's words, we can find a space not for explaining or understanding this trinity of divine persons and their unity of being so much as pondering and appreciating the mystery of their reality and the empowerment of their presence in our lives as individual Christians and as the congregation of St Paul's.
We are called not to comprehend intellectually every doctrine of the Church and the faith, especially since they can't truly be comprehended. Rather, we are called to engage the doctrines of the Church and the faith so that we find the ways they still and yet give life to us.
For me, in part, the Holy Trinity is an ongoing reminder that God is a community of persons--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer; holy and undivided. We who are made in God's image are invited into a life of community with God, ourselves, and each other, building our lives upon and within God's divine and eternal life.
And, we are invited into a Unity that is greater than any one of us, grounded in God's great love for the whole world and for each of us. We are called to partnership and collaboration for the greater good with one another and with the One-in-Three, Three-in-One who can do exceedingly more than we can ask or imagine.
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