The dogma of the Holy Trinity is not an abstraction, mere information regarding God's “inner life”—kind of God to give us, but quite irrelevant in our earthly existence. No! It is a stunning blissful experience and is our experience, too, whether we attend to it or not. The God who created us is the God who came to us in Jesus Christ to take us back to his heart, and the same God, as the spirit of the Risen Lord is with us now. It was the actual experience of this threefold presence of God as Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier, that led our spiritual forefathers, guided, as promised, by the Holy Spirit, to infer that in some mysterious way, God is triune in nature. The Church in her liturgy is always holding up to our gaze the mystery of the triune God. She holds it up like a precious jewel against the light and turns it now this way, now that as she celebrates her mysteries or preaches the word, and so we may see it ever anew.
RUTH BURROWS, OCD Love Unknown, Ch. 2
