THIS Sunday we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. We profess that God exists in Three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – but He is One God. The Father is God; the Son Jesus Christ is God; and the Holy Spirit is God, but together, they do not form three gods but One and only One God. Taken individually, they are not parts of a single God, such that each one is one-third God. No. Each is fully God, and although each one takes his own Person, all the three Persons are of the same essence; hence, Three Persons but One God.
How do we know that God exists as a Trinity? Because the Bible tells us so.
In the baptism of Jesus, we read that the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove and the voice of the Father in heaven was heard, saying, “You are my beloved Son; in you I am well pleased” (See Luke 3:22).
In talking to his disciples about the coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus said, “The Advocate, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name – He will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you” (John 14:22).
And in the Great Commission, Jesus instructed his disciples saying, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19).
In many other parts of the Scriptures, too many to mention here, we see references to the same Holy Trinity. And if we believe that the Bible, the word of God, is true, then we are to believe in this core Christian doctrine called the Holy Trinity.
It takes faith to accept this hard teaching. Human mind is limited to completely understand the nature of the limitless God. The Infinite cannot be expressed precisely by the finite, nor can the eternal be captured accurately by the temporal. Only in heaven can this Divine truth be fully grasped and appreciated.