Having come down in a cloud, the LORD stood with Moses there
and proclaimed his name, "LORD."
The Trinity is hidden everywhere. There is the One speaking, the Word spoken, and the cloud of glory. Although the fullness of the Trinity is hidden he is nevertheless present to Israel. Even then, before they have any idea about the doctrine of the Trinity, they already enter to some extent into the mystery. And this is what the mystery is meant to be. It is something which we primarily enter and only secondarily understand, and that in weak and partial ways.
Jesus reveals to us that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is not interested so much in clover metaphors about a natural three-in-one as he is that we enter into the life they share together. He is interested in joining us in the same bond of love that defines the highest reality of God himself.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the love of God
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
The upshot to all of this is that there isn't going to be a test. We aren't going to have to perfectly recite the Athanasian creed of the Nicean formulas. We may never fully understand the profundity of saying that Jesus is consubstantial with the Father. The important thing is to live it. This is one way that love covers a multitude of sins. Even the Trinitarian heresies are heresies not just because they are wrong but because all of the ways they are wrong describe something as less than love. Love is the only test. Will we enter in?
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the love of God
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
We are invited to be filled with the Spirit, united with the Son, loving the Father today. We enter in by faith, and from this union hope and charity flow out to the world. So let us praise the mystery beyond all telling!
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers,
praiseworthy and exalted above all forever;
And blessed is your holy and glorious name,
praiseworthy and exalted above all for all ages.
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