The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity 2017

The christian faith is full of mysteries, things we will never be able to wrap our minds around.  As hard as we try to explain it, the rational mind does not have the ability to comprehend the mysteries of the faith.  The Lord’s Supper is a mystery.  How can the Body and Blood of Jesus be present at the same time as the bread and wine?  From common sense we know that two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time.  If I try to occupy the same space as the wall, I’m going to hurt myself.  If two cars try to occupy the same space, the police have to be called and maybe even a tow truck or two because it’s impossible for the cars to coexist in one place.  How can Jesus, as we confess, be born of the Virgin Mary?  How can Jesus exist without the necessary mode of conception?  And today we confess something we cannot begin to explain but must take as a matter of faith.  How can there be one God but three Persons?  How can they be coequal and share the same majesty and not have one before or after the other?  Mortal, fallen minds cannot understand the mysteries of the faith, but God uses these mysteries for our salvation and for our good, to teach us that we are not able to do everything ourselves and must rely fully on Him.

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