A religion teacher introduces the lesson of the day with these words, "Class, today we are going to understand what the Trinity is." A student raises his hand and says, "Teacher, we’re not supposed to understand it, are we? The Trinity is a mystery!"

In a sense, this is true because a mystery is something that we cannot fully understand. But while we cannot fully comprehend a mystery, we can have some insight into the incomprehensible because we believe in divine revelation as the Scripture readings for this Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity show.

In the Gospel (Jn 16:12-115), the three Persons of the Triune God are revealed: Jesus speaks of the coming of "the Spirit of truth" (16:13) who will glorify him and who will reveal "everything the Father has" (16:15). Jesus is the preexistent Wisdom revealed in the First Reading (Prov 8:22-31) that also gives us an insight into the inner life of the Triune God which is eternal love and joy: "When he fixed the foundations of earth, then was I beside him as artisan; I was his delight day by day, playing before him all the while, playing over the whole of his earth, having my delight with human beings" (8:29-31). We participate and experience this eternal love and joy because, as the Second Reading (Rom 5:1-5) reveals, "We are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (5:1) and that "the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us" (5:5).

We have been privileged to have experienced this divine love and joy because we believe in Jesus who reveals the divine mystery to us and we are baptized "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19).

Virgilio T.J. Suerte Felipe