Growing Up With the Trinity: An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman Walked Onto a Football Pitch...

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But I want to share one final story, one testimony and example of how I recently saw this passage lived out positively. Because the Father and the Son and the Spirit have the same nature, they have the same will and the same work. We know that God isn’t divided into three parts (the Son isn’t 1/3 God, the Spirit 1/3 God, or the Father 1/3 God) and each Person of the Trinity is fully God all on their own.

Rather than tossing them out, I think it’s a valuable lesson for our children to explore both how each analogy or illustration helps us better understand the Trinity and in what ways God is different.The doctrine of the Trinity tells us that there’s ONE GOD who is THREE distinct PERSONS existing as a community of self-giving and loving relationships with each other. In effect, then, the total Eucharistic mystery includes the presence of both the Father and the Holy Spirit as an inseparable concomitant . God by nature is perfect life, love, eternity, power, wisdom, and all of the attributes or “perfections” of God.

David sings his testimony in Psalm 16:2, “I said to the LORD, ‘You are my Lord, and I have nothing good besides you. The single hand of God, the hand of the Son and the hand of the Father, the hand of power and life, holds the people of God invincible, safe, and deeply loved. God as a three-headed deity is so difficult for me to grasp, but your explanation goes a long way in illuminating the mystery of the Holy Trinity.All of us are part of a family and perhaps some of you who are younger want to start a family one day. Title : Growing Up With the Trinity: An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman Walked Onto a Football Pitch. I’ve watched ordained adults play ‘rock, paper, scissors,’ with the loser giving the homily on Trinity Sunday. Augustine points out two historic dangers of the sea-voyage of Christian faith and the doctrine of the Trinity.