I skimmed Fr. Robert Barron’s book on Catholicism. I was unable to find any mention of the Trinity. Weird.
Fr. Yamid Blanco, (who speaks heavily accented English) spoke on the Trinity yesterday. He compared the Trinity to a marriage and a family. Father, mother, child = 3 persons in one family. Father, mother, child = love. Father, Son, Holy Ghost (3 in 1)= Love.
I told him it was the best analogy I’d heard in all my years as a Catholic.
Unfortunately, yesterday was his last sermon for us. He’s been transferred to 3 parishes who need a Spanish speaking priest. He came here right out of Seminary, barely speaking English, and now we all laugh at his jokes right on cue. We shall really miss him.
Good words IMO.
In some parishes Trinity Sunday was the time to give a financial report, anything rather than preach on the Most Holy Trinity
I read the American English which is what my bible is wrote in but the words they use I do not see in my bible, and even worse, many times I do not even see the subject in my Bible.
Does any one still preach what Jesus taught?
Are there any preachers who preach do unto others as you would have them do unto you? or does any one preach the most important verses in the gospels which is the parable of the sheep and goats? which is not really a parable at all but by his own words Jesus told us this is what we are going to be judged by.
Matthew 25:31-46
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
Verse 33 to 46 explains who the sheep and goats are.
I am, well maybe not any more, surprised that this is not the main sermon on the preaching of salvation.
Although I believe in the trinity I do not believe my salvation depends on that belief, I believe it depends on my faith in Jesus being the son of God and he died to set me free so that I might live and then he was resurrected and now sits at the right hand of God.
He will gather all nations before him on the last day and separate the sheep from the goats.
“...St. Augustine commenting upon this testimony writes: “The words of the Apostle, of Him, and by Him, and in Him are not to be taken indiscriminately; of Him refers to the Father, by Him to the Son, in Him to the Holy Ghost” (De Trin. 1. vi., c. 10; 1. i., c. 6). The Church is accustomed most fittingly to attribute to the Father those works of the Divinity in which power excels, to the Son those in which wisdom excels, and those in which love excels to the Holy Ghost. Not that all perfections and external operations are not common to the Divine Persons; for “the operations of the Trinity are indivisible, even as the essence of the Trinity is indivisible” (St. Aug., De Trin., I. 1, cc. 4-5); because as the three Divine Persons “are inseparable, so do they act inseparably” (St. Aug., i6.). But by a certain comparison, and a kind of affinity between the operations and the properties of the Persons, these operations are attributed or, as it is said, “appropriated” to One Person rather than to the others. “Just as we make use of the traces of similarity or likeness which we find in creatures for the manifestation of the Divine Persons, so do we use Their essential attributes; and this manifestation of the Persons by Their essential attributes is called appropriation” (St. Th. la., q. 39, xxxix., a. 7). In this manner the Father, who is “the principle of the whole God-head” (St. Aug. De Trin. 1 iv., c. 20) is also the efficient cause of all things, of the Incarnation of the Word, and the sanctification of souls; “of Him are all things”: of Him, referring to the Father. But the Son, the Word, the Image of God is also the exemplar cause, whence all creatures borrow their form and beauty, their order and harmony. He is for us the Way, the Truth, and the Life; the Reconciles of man with God. “By Him are all things”: by Him, referring to the Son. The Holy Ghost is the ultimate cause of all things, since, as the will and all other things finally rest in their end, so He, who is the Divine Goodness and the Mutual Love of the Father and Son, completes and perfects, by His strong yet gentle power, the secret work of man’s eternal salvation. “In Him are all things”: in Him, referring to the Holy Ghost.
From DIVINUM ILLUD MUNUS, ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE HOLY SPIRIT