Mystical thought

Today was Trinity Sunday. Fr. Bob’s homily was of course about the Trinity. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Bob spent some time telling us how the concept of the trinity was difficult for the apostles. The idea of God in three persons has always been very abstract for me. I can’t really get my head around such an idea. The church never explains the trinity, instead it prefers to shroud it in mystery. Up until today that was as far as I got. As I sat there this morning it occurred to me that mystery and mystical are taken from the same root word. There is no way to know or to intellectualize a mystery. It is ethereal by its very nature and cannot be known. Peace.

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