Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 26, 2021 -SEVEN
Spiritually Speaking
Holy Trinity: Model of
Relationship
By Fr. Thankachan Joseph
Holy Trinity Sunday is celebrated
on the first Sunday following Pente-
cost, a solemn celebration of the belief
in the revelation of one God, yet three Fr. Thankachan
divine persons. Our God is far beyond Joseph
the grasp of our intellect. All we can
say is that we have the Father the Creator, Son the Re-
deemer, and Holy Spirit the Sanctifier and Counselor. The
doctrine of Three Persons in one God, equal in Divinity
yet distinct in Person, is not explicitly spelled out in the
Bible. Even the very word “Trinity” is not found in the
Bible. But the doctrine of the Trinity underlies all major
Christian feasts, three distinct individuals having different
functions to fulfil. Holy Trinity explains the plurality of
godhead and the one-only God.
When I was thinking of explaining about the dogma
of Trinity what came to mind was a very old and much-re-
peated story about St. Augustine, one of the intellectual
giants of the Catholic Church. St Augustine was walking
on the seashore pondering how to comprehend the truth
of Holy Trinity and explain in human terms. An angel
appeared to him in the form of a little lad playing on the
seashore. The lad was trying to dig a small hole, picking
a shell from the shore, and playing with the water. Au-
gustine watched as the child went back and forth several
times. Augustine approached the little boy and asked him
what he was trying to do. The boy said, “Trying to fill that
hole with the ocean.” Augustine said, “You’ll never fit the
ocean into that hole.” And the boy said, “Neither will you
be able to fit the Trinity into your mind.” The child was
an angel sent by God to teach Augustine a lesson. This
means that we can understand something of the Mystery
of the Holy Trinity more readily with the heart than with
our feeble minds.
The Holy Trinity from the Scriptural perspectives is
Triune - three but one. Let us split the word Trinity into
two – Tri and unity. “Tri” or Trio means three and “unity”
makes God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit one. This means three in one and one in three. If
we search for “Trinity” on the internet, we will be shown
an equilateral triangle – the sides are the same, with three
corners that can be interchanged – because our God in
three persons is the same.
The Trinity has prominent importance in our Christian
life. All prayers in the Catholic Church begin in the Name
of the Holy Trinity and end glorifying the Trinity. When
we are baptized, confirmed, anointed, our sins forgiven,
our marriage blessed, and our bishops, priests and deacons
ordained, it is in the name of the Holy Trinity. We bless
ourselves, and the priest blesses us, in the name of the
Holy Trinity. As the old tradition goes, where Church bells
ring thrice daily, they remind us to pray to the Holy Trinity.
The first letter of St. John states: “For there are three
that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (1 John 5:7). The
scriptures present God as one, Co-eternal, Co-existing,
Inseparable, which, I am sure, is rather difficult to com-
prehend by our human minds. Some theologians are of
the opinion that God is beyond all comprehensions and
understandings. We can only speak of the Trinity with
analogies and allegories: Trinity is like water, which
can be in three forms, Liquid – Ice - Gas. An Egg is like
the Trinity, three parts in one egg, Shell – White - Yoke.
Another example is that of St. Patrick of Ireland’s sham-
rock, a trifoliate leaf he used to explain the Trinity to the
people of Ireland.
The Holy Trinity teaches us the following:
Communion. Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit are
inseparable. This scriptural passage describes their unity:
“But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send unto
you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which pro-
ceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me” (John 15:
26). This communion we need to acquire for our family
life, as well as in our society. We need to uphold everyone
with respect and enrich them by our ways of living, and
we need to become models after the example of trinity.
Community of loving persons. We are created in love
to be a community of loving persons, just as the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit are united in Love. When a new
family is formed through the sacrament of Marriage,
this peculiarity of the Trinitarian God begins to exist.
Two different people come together to live in intimacy.
Their conjugal love brings children into the family. All of
them will have their own identities and individuality, but
they begin to appreciate, love, and forgive one another,
an example of a Trinitarian family. How privileged we
are to belong to the Family of the Triune God. The love,
unity, and joy in the relationship among the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit should be the supreme model of our rela-
tionships within our Christian families. Our families will
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N O T I C E O F B U D G E T H E A R I N G
A public meeting of the Heppner Cemetery Maintenance District will be held on June 8, 2021 at 5:30 pm at 61232 Hwy 207, Heppner, Oregon. The purpose of this
meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021 as approved by the Heppner Cemetery Maintenance District Budget Committee. A
summary of the budget is presented below. A copy of the budget may be inspected or obtained at 61232 Hwy 207 between the hours of 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. This
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become truly Christian when we live in a relationship of
love with God and with others.
Relationship of love with God and with other people.
Man, a social animal, needs the model of the Trinitarian
relationship in order to grow as a human being. We see in
the Trinitarian relationship mutual love, care, and affec-
tion for one another. Individualities are respected. No one
is a hindrance to anyone else and there is perfect union.
Our human relationships should be built in this pattern.
Like God the Father, we are called upon to be productive
and creative persons by contributing to the fabric of life
and love in our family, our Church, our community, and
our nation. Like God the Son, we are called upon to rec-
oncile, to be peacemakers, to put back together that which
has been broken, to restore what has been shattered. Like
God the Holy Spirit, it is our task to uncover and teach
truth and to dispel ignorance.
We are made in God’s image and likeness. We read
in the book of Genesis, “God said, let us make man in
our image, after our likeness” (Gen.1: 26). Just as God
in the Trinitarian relationship, we can be fully human
only in a horizontal relationship with all other people,
and in a vertical relationship with God. Modern society
follows the so-called “I-and-I” principle of unbridled
individualism and the resulting consumerism. But the
doctrine of the Blessed Trinity challenges us to adopt an
“I-and-God-and-neighbor” principle: “I am a Christian
insofar as I live in a relationship of love with God and
with other people.” Trinitarian spirituality is a way of
living the Gospel attentive to the requirements of justice,
understood as rightly ordered relationships between and
among persons.
On Trinity Sunday, let us ponder with joy and thanks-
giving what the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have done to
accomplish the salvation of humanity. It has brought to
mind how Christians should respond to the love God has
shown for us, praising Him and giving Him glory. Let us
remember the Father as our Creator, the Son as our Savior,
and the Holy Spirit as our Comforter, and live in mutual
love, care, and affection for one another.
Community invited
to review health
assessment
The Community Health
Improvement Partnership
of Morrow County (MC-
CHIP) invites community
members to review the draft
2021 Community Health
Assessment; participate
in a virtual presentation
and discussion of the data
describing the health of the
county (June 3, 9 – 10:30
a.m.); or provide written or
oral comment.
The Partnership, com-
prised of Morrow Coun-
ty health care providers
and human services, lo-
cal government, education
and community partners
throughout the region,
formed during 2010 to col-
laboratively complete a
comprehensive analysis
of health status data, col-
lect information to identify
potential gaps in access to
health care services and
create strategies to help
improve health and meet
community needs. The as-
sessment is completed ev-
ery three years.
Public review and input
are very important func-
tions of health service plan-
ning and accommodations
can be made, if needed, to
encourage your involve-
ment. Please call Andrea
Fletcher at 541-989-8232
or email mcchip11@gmail.
com to receive a copy of
the document and instruc-
tions for participation in
the virtual meeting, where
information will be shared
using video teleconference.
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