
Day 36: The Nature of the Trinity
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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God Is One, but Not Solitary
Father, son and Holy Spirit are not simply names, designating modalities of the divine being. If these are simply ways that the one God expressed himself, then he would still be monolithic,. It was still, he could never be a trinity of persons. And so it's not just three different ways of expressing his existence or expressing his action in the world, but three distinct persons. That sense of being able to recognize that truth is so very important for all of us.
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