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Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

What Is the Trinity?

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Friends, Trinity Sunday has been called “the preacher’s nightmare.” But while the Trinity remains a supreme mystery, Thomas Aquinas used a basic principle that helps us to get at it: beings, at all levels, tend to make images of themselves. The higher you go in the hierarchy of being, the more interior and the more perfect this principle becomes.

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

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apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

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new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

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Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

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the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

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you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

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warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

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Peace be with you. Friends, we come to Trinity Sunday. It's been called the

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Preacher's Nightmare. I've never believed it. I love Trinity Sunday. I love

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preaching on Trinity Sunday and what I'm going to do today, I'm going to commit

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an act of theology. But if you can't theologize a little bit on Trinity

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Sunday, when can you? You know, I know of course the Trinity remains the

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supreme mystery, but there are ways of getting at this mystery, ways of

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understanding it. Let me start this way. Being at all levels is communicative.

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Let me say it again. Being reality at all levels is communicative. In other

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words, things at all levels tend to make images of themselves. Think even of

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contemporary quantum scientists talk about quantum entanglement. They talk

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about spooky action at a distance. You know, when subatomic particles were in

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contact at one point, then even when they're far, far apart, they're still

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having a kind of influence on each other. All things are interconnected

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because all things tend to make images of themselves. They communicate with the

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reality around them. Okay, with that principle in mind, I want to

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