Why the Trinity Matters

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 18 May 2008

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

There is no question more important than this one: who is God? The doctrine of the Trinity is the Christian answer to that question. The Trinity is simply a doctrinally exact way of stating the belief that God is love. If love is what God is, then in the very being of God there must be lover, beloved, and love.

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0:00.0	Word on fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.7	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:10.9	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on fire.
0:17.4	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on fire, which is God's
0:21.8	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with
0:29.0	love about the one who is love.
0:32.4	The Archdiocese of Chicago, through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winetka, now presents
0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:42.4	Peace be with you.
0:44.3	Friends, there is no question more important or more pressing than this.
0:51.3	Who is God?
0:55.3	We talk about God all the time.
0:56.5	We invoke God, we pray to God.
0:59.2	But who is God?
1:02.6	On this Trinity Sunday, the preacher's nightmares, as I've often said, what really shouldn't
1:08.3	be, on Trinity Sunday, the church asks us in a very specific pointed way to reflect
1:15.1	on just this question.
1:18.8	The Trinity, you know, is the distinctively, even peculiarly Christian doctrine.
1:26.7	Our belief in God separates us from secularists or even from Buddhists.
1:32.2	Our belief in a personal God separates us from New Age, Mystics and Hindus.
1:39.5	Our belief in the Trinity separates us from Unitarians and Jews and Muslims.
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