The Significance Of The Trinity
...on the Trinitarian nature of our God and its significance to our faith journey. While preparing for my RCIA project on The Sign of the Cross'; I realized that I vocalize the Trinity probably a minimum of at least six times a day without giving any thought to the meaning of the words. My mind takes for granted the words: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. I think that this may true of most Christians. The words are, in reality, a prayer and the core foundation of our faith as we know and believe it. I will attempt to show how this is true using the Holy Scripture, Christian tradition, and works of some Christian Fathers such as Sts. Thomas Aquinas and Augustine.
First off, we say we believe in God. We, in our hearts and minds, are searching for a god in whom we can place reasonable belief. We look to the heavens and say only God could create such a complexity of stars and galaxies. We say this is a reason to believe and to have faith. There is nothing wrong with this searching, but we have to realize that God's ways are far beyond the ability of the human mind to ever begin to understand. As in Job 36:26 "Behold, God is great, and we know Him not." It is therefore impossible to find God through reason alone. As we continue our search for God, God may reward our search and allow us to find him. It, however is not our search that found him but his gift of faith at the end of our search that opens our hearts and minds to embrace Him. We are to, as the old Baltimore catechism use to say and is still true in the new catechism, "know, love, and serve God." To do this requires the gift of faith!
What happens to those who continue searching for God; but do not receive the gift of faith? I think that God is aware of their search and uses them to witness to Him by their daily actions. They are doing His special work in their lives, though they may...
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