Friends, welcome to Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated

to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and new to share the faith on every

continent, and to facilitate and encounter with Christ and His Church. The efforts of

Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word where

it is most needed. Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Baron,

as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each of us.

Peace be with you. Well, friends, very happy and blessed Trinity Sunday to everybody.

They say Trinity Sunday is the preacher's nightmare, but I've always liked Trinity Sunday,

because it's about what's truly unique to God and it's all about our salvation. And

I tell my students at the seminary when I was teaching that every Sunday is Trinity Sunday.

So how can we approach this great mystery and this great feast?

One of the most basic features of all reality, if you think about it, is the tendency to

communicate or to state it a bit differently to make images. So think of the simplest

thing, think of a rock or some other inanimate object. When the rains come and the ground

softens around it, the rock makes an image of itself in the earth. If you pick up a stone

and you hurl it through a window, it'll make an image of itself in the broken glass.

Now think of things at a higher level, think of plants. They can communicate themselves

make images of themselves even more dramatically. So plants can drop a seed which enters the

earth and eventually gives rise to a striking reproduction at much higher level than a rock

is able. Think of how trees eventually cover an entire countryside, how flowers cover an

entire hillside, image upon image upon image. Now, go a bit higher. Animals can reproduce

themselves even more intensely, more perfectly. Think of an embryo forming itself in the womb

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