Sunday 15 June 2025
Our Lady Immaculate
A gloriously bright sunny morning. It was warm in church. Then cold.
With the doors left open and the overhead fans spinning, the breeze was pleasant at first, then chilly. Some people, who had been sitting in t-shirts, put their coats back on.
I came away wondering if I really understood the Trinity, or just throught I understood the Trinity. I’m still not sure. The differences between them is familiar to me, but could I explain it?
It was also the Day for Life within the church, which in the UK couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time. Our secular society, led by the current government, is performing a kind of pincer move on the dignity of life. From one end they are introducing assisted suicide. From the other, the legalisation of abortion up to the point of birth.
But back to the Trinity.
There is God, not so much a person in a chair but the power and authority within all of existence. Then there is Jesus, the son of God, the incarnation of God as a man. And then the Holy Spirit, the force that unites the three, and which unites us to the love of God.
That’s my interpretation. The exact opposite of the secular world’s interpretation of existence, so obsessed with “control” that they will hastily usher in death in order to guarantee it.