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Five things we need to know about the Most Holy Trinity

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  Let’s face it, we have trouble understanding and explaining the Most Holy Trinity. The following short video, irreverently pokes fun at this problem. Perhaps the Holy Trinity is a mystery that is too hard to explain? While simple analogies do fail, it is possible to understand some basic truths about the Trinity. In fact, there are five surprising truths we need to learn. Firstly, far from being some obscure and impractically belief, the Catechism reminds us that, “The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life ” (CCC   261). It is the most fundamental and essential teaching of our faith (CCC 234).   Everything God does is the common work of the three divine persons. Every aspect of our faith is touched by this mystery. Secondly, when God created man and women in the “image and likeness of God” (Genesis 1:27) this truth highlights a dual unity of the human couple who image the relations between the Father, Son and Holy S