by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“… The Athanasian Creed, written around the fourth or fifth century, puts it this way: ‘We worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance.’ …”
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“… On the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity we do well to remember that we are pondering a mystery that cannot fit in our minds. A mystery, though, is not something wholly unknown. In the Christian tradition, the word “mystery” refers to (among other things) something that is partially revealed, something much more of which remains hidden. As we
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“… The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the “hierarchy of the truths of faith”.56 The whole
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“… #God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but might have Eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be Saved through Him. …”
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“… He said to them, ‘Whose image and inscription is this?’ They replied to him, ‘Caesar’s.’ So Jesus said to them, ‘Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.’”
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“… Centuries later, what message can we gather today from the teaching and marvelous activity of this great missionary and martyr? For those who approach Boniface, an initial fact stands out: the centrality of the Word of God, lived and interpreted in the Faith of the Church, a word that he lived, preached and witnessed to until he gave the
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“Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders in parables. ‘A man planted a vineyard …. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey. … * * * The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our
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“What a wondrous and challenging feast we celebrate at Pentecost! A feast like this challenges us because it puts to the lie a lazy, sleepy, hidden, and tepid Christian life. The Lord Jesus said to Apostles, and still says to us, I have come to cast a fire on the earth (Luke 12:49). This is a feast about fire, a
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“Fifty days after Easter we celebrate the Solemnity of Pentecost, in which we recall the Manifestation of the Power of the Holy Spirit, Who as Wind and as Fire descended upon the Apostles gathered together in the Upper Room, and enabled them to Preach the Gospel to all nations with courage (cf. Acts 2: 1-13). The Mystery of Pentecost, which
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“This weekend, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year that concludes the Easter season and celebrates the beginning of the Church. …”
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