Many of our life experiences consist of ternary experiences. For example: family, church and society; husband, wife and children; birth, life and death; parents, children and school; school, teachers and students; government officials, society and citizens and so on. But before Jesus came no one addressed these human experience in it’s profoundest meaning. Our experiences are trinary and serves as a good lead towards a trinitarian God. It is unfortunate that in trying to explain God to the Greek culture many terminologies used, understood by the Greeks, were lost in the minds of other peoples in other cultures. The Biblical sense of Trinity suffered. Our philosophy and theology, though important they may be, has made the Trinity too intellectual. Trinity is not a definition of terms but a revelation of relationship. The reality of the Blessed Trinity is not a doctrine composed by the teaching authority of the Church. The reality of the Blessed Trinity is the relationship that Jesus had with the Father and the Son. It was an intimate relationship that he had in his humanity with the Father and the Son. The catholic philosophical understanding of the Trinity has been very much developed but the biblical understanding was not. We as Christians can do much service for the church because our life gives us the opportunity to go into the heart, mind and love of Jesus. In Jesus’ person we will be able to discover the Trinity not in terms of philosophical knowledge but in terms of the Trinitarian power in our lives. The Trinitarian life is not meant to be philosophized but to be contemplated upon. Not in a manner that is detached from reality. If it is detached from reality then it becomes intellectual again. God was revealed as a Father because human beings need to know their true identity, their true self and their origin. Jesus message said that we are children of God and that he loves us so much to send his Only begotten son. His love for the world and all human beings is unconditional. So in God the Father human beings have learned that their origin is the Father, their true identity is that they sons and daughters of God. They have so much dignity. In Jesus, God the Son, human beings learned who they are. Jesus reminded them of being children of God which they have forgotten. They were brought back by Jesus to the Father, that Jesus took away their sins and gave them back the true dignity of the children of God. Jesus showed them the truth (God is their Father), the Way (to the father is through Jesus) and the Life (in the Spirit). Jesus was also the sign from heaven that He is the One Sent by God, the Messiah, through whom everyone’s sins are forgiven by Jesus’ suffering, death and Resurrection. Jesus, the Son of God, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity is the brother of all. He will introduce us to the Father saying we were the lost children whom He has brought back to the Father. The Spirit is the Light, that lightens ours mind to understand what has been revealed and taught by Jesus Christ. He said to the apostles that He will send the Holy Spirit that they may understand everything He has said. It is the Spirit in us that we say YES to what has been revealed to us. The Spirit warms our heart with love for Father Son and for our brothers and sisters. The Spirit strengthens us to be courageous and faithful until the end even to give up our life for the sake of God. So you see dear brothers and sisters, our common trinary experiences of relationships in life can lead us deep into the Trinitarian life. We too are trinitarian: God, you and me.
The Blessed Trinity is a not a doctrine to be memorized. It is an invitation of God to enter into His ineffable myster of the 3 divine persons even here on earth. The gift is give who desire to have this relatioship with the 3 divine persons. If it said that we human beings are a mystery to themselves then it it can be aptly expressed that there is a natural affiliation between the 2 mysteries: man and God. Nothing is clearer than the union of the divine and human in Christ. And if we live in Christ the mystery of ourself is very much endearing to God. The mystery of the human being finds is predestiny in the Holy Trinity. God mean and wishes it to be so. We belong to him in the deepest meaning of our being. God created us for him and to live this life here on earth toward and in Him.
We can meet the Trinity in our life if only we are attentive to the care each divine person has for us in our life, if only we are totally open to them in humility and desire. The very nature of God is to share of Himself, to dwell in us as the triune God. We are always situated in community. No one exists without community. He or she has to make a decision to live outside it and to do so is to
Live in darkness and loneliness. We are social in nature and it lends to the fact that we are trinitarian in nature all the more.