The Western Churches celebrated Trinity Sunday yesterday. Coming a week after Pentecost on the Western calendar, this feast honors a central dogma of all authentic Christian faith, that of the Holy Trinity, which teaches us that the one, eternal, transcendent God is, in fact, a community, a communion, of three co-equal, co-eternal Persons: the Father, the Eternal Son and Word, and the Holy Spirit.
There is much to be said here, especially now, concerning the implications of a communitarian God in whose image and likeness humanity is created and, in the Incarnation of God the Eternal Word and Son, re-created. However, at this time I will simply note two aphorisms:
“Christian social teaching IS the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.”
And
“Between the Holy Trinity and hell there lies no third choice.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son+, and to the Holy Spirit, One God:
In both worlds unto the Aeon of aeons. Amen
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