The Divine Intimacy of The Most Holy Trinity

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The Divine Intimacy of The Most Holy Trinity

God is One in Being and Three in Persons each possessing the Divine Nature and Essence. There are not three Gods, but one God and there are not three natures but one nature. God eternally possesses infinite attributes to infinite perfection neither in composition nor division in one Essence and Nature. God is not composed of distinct parts, for He is One in Nature, yet each of the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity is a distinct individual from the other two Persons each Divine in Nature, Substance and Essence. God eternally exists in Three distinct Divine Persons. God manifested His Divine Essence to Moses when he said: "I AM WHO AM" and "HE WHO IS". It is God alone who self-exists for all eternity and is existence itself. St. Thomas says that existence is the most perfect/excellent of all things. God is the uncaused cause of all that exists and He sustains our existence in His mind as it is written in scriptures: "For in Him we live and move and are..."

God is eternal and immutable, that is, His state of being forever remains the same. His Divine Essence and Nature never changes and is dependent on no one and nothing. On the other hand, the "now" of time is completely dependent on the past which is all prior moments, hence change in the state of one's being can take place in time, but not in eternity. Time began for the simple reason that God created it and that a forwardly progressing present instant absolutely could not have caused an infinite past, that is, a beginningless time. God exists in one eternal "present" instant without past nor future, and dependent upon no other moment for His existence, who had no beginning. "To Be" and "To Understand" are one and the same in God. God exists in His perfect understanding of Himself. God comprehends Himself in one indivisible, simple and instantaneous act-of-understanding simultaneously with His act-of-being. He possesses all and infinite knowledge and conjointly distinguishes and perceives the connection between all uncreated knowledge within Himself, neither connection before or after but in one act-of-understanding. In God, there exists no potentiality but only actuality. In God, all is realized not from potential to reality, but in an eternal immutable supernatural actualized reality.

Nothing is impossible to God. And God knows the infinite set of all potential and unrealized possibilities that can occur in time, where change in the state of a creature's being or the state of his soul can take place. This infinite set of potential and unrealized possibilities exists in His Mind, where that which is potential becomes actual. At the end of Time as Our Lord so clearly stated there would be, potential and unrealized possibilities will no longer exist since time will have ceased, but God will know what potential in time could have been and was not realized, primarily due to sin. Clearly, only eternity will remain and the state of one's soul or of his being will forever remain the same either in Hell or in Heaven. God possesses all created perfections and to an infinite degree, in which He is known as Universally Perfect, but God also possesses all uncreated perfections to an infinite degree, in other words, God is much more than what He created and creation in a finite manner is just a finite reflection ofHimself, Who possesses infinite number of attributes to complete and infinite perfection in one Essence and Nature.

God is omnipresent and, therefore, is everywhere whole and entire as He is in any one place invisibly as pure spirit, in all places and times, and nothing can be hidden from Him, for He knows all things. God witnesses our every action both externally and internally, our thoughts, motivations and dispositions in our minds and hearts. He is not one and the same with the universe because He is clearly distinct from His creation. God's thought exists outside the universe and extends for all eternity. God is not contained by the universe, but rather, the universe is contained by Him, in which He is omnipresent.

God can not be defined because He possesses everything and knows as well the set of all potential and unrealized possibilities in time. To define an object we must first assign it a genus, a category as well as assign it further specific differences to differentiate it among other similar genus. Simply put, since God's act-of-being, His very existence, can not be compared to non-existence, He can not be defined.

In God free-will is the cause of its own movement because by God's free-will through His Divine Essence and Nature, He moves Himself to act with infinite power, being the first uncaused cause, but not from potentiality to actuality, because in God there exists no potentiality. God has free will in that nothing is impossible for Him to choose to do except a contradiction. For example God can not choose to commit evil, for that would be absolutely contrary to His fundamental Holiness and Him being the Highest Good.

Some of the Divine and infinite Attributes which the one God in being, in Three distinct Persons possesses to complete and infinite perfection are: eternal, existence, knowledge, understanding, omniscience(having infinite knowledge and understanding), truth, love, power, goodness, holiness, mercy, justice, majesty, omnipotence, excellence, beauty, fidelity, immutability(unchangeableness), sweetness, virtue and beatitude without any shadow of imperfection. The simplicity of God is that He is one and that all of His attributes in complete and infinite perfection are neither in composition nor division but are one from His Divine Essence and Nature and attributed to Him simultaneously without distinguishable parts in a similar manner a single white light through a prism generates many different colors but its source is from one beam of white light.

Holy Scriptures tells us: "O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!" "...being rooted and founded in charity, You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge: that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God." "For God is charity." Because God can not be defined, neither can Charity nor Love be defined which is the bond and the unity of God. God is reflective in His very Nature and reflects His essence inwards amongst the three Persons in a "community", and reflects some of His essence and Glory outwards into creation. Each person of the Most Blessed Trinity manifests their Love towards creation and creatures, however when one Person of the Holy Trinity acts, the other two act with Him, each distinct and each equally possessing the Divine Nature and Essence, One in Being and Three in Persons.

God the Father manifests His Love for others in having creating all of creation and creatures, both material and immaterial. God the Son manifests His Love for others in His sacrifice on the Cross for the redemption of all and the salvation of many. God the Holy Ghost manifests His Love for others in willing only that which is good and holy for the members and the members to be of the Most Holy Roman Catholic Church in which He is the Sanctifier of. In any relationship these three Loves and activities of the Most Holy Trinity, for us is to: prudently give, share what one has with others, pray for others and act charitably amongst ourselves in order to brings about one's own salvation or the salvation of others, and to will only that which is good and holy to others. We make these actions/works in the presence or the absence of feelings and emotions even if they be conflicting against virtue.

One way to describe the Divine Intimacy and inner life of the Most Holy Trinity is communication and interaction of one Person to the other two Persons in knowledge, understanding, and love without contradiction. Truth is Non-contradictory knowledge that originates from God and an understanding of that knowledge. And Wisdom is truth, again in the spirit of knowledge and understanding with love. The Father possesses all knowledge and the Father's understanding of Himself generates the Son, and the Love between the Father and the Son is so great that the Holy Ghost proceeds from them both in eternity, each person involved with the act of the other two, neither of the Persons before or after each other.

The eternal procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son is the uncreated “Immaculate Conception”. God is infinite in His substance and attributes, exalted above all else, eternally one true God and because of the execution of these three activities in Him of knowing, understanding and loving, there exists Three distinct Persons in the Divine intimacy and interaction amongst them. Love, then, is the eternal bond and unity amongst the Three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity.

The First Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Father in His reflective Nature, reflects an understanding of His infinite knowledge into a perfect image of Himself which is the eternally generated and begotten Son, the Word, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, and the Love between them both is the eternally proceeding Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, the bond of unity between them.

The family is the fundamental building block of society in the exact same manner that atoms comprise material substance. The family, a husband, wife and, God Willing, children, is a miniature representation and reflection of the Trinity from cause and effect. In the abstract and conceptually speaking, parents are likened to the First and Second Persons of the Trinity and the fruit of their Love, one or more children, or even the very intention and determination to have children, is likened to the Fruit of the Love between the First and Second Persons of the Most Holy Trinity which is the Third Person, again, the uncreated “Immaculate Conception.” If you break down the family, you destroy society.

The Most Holy Trinity can be likened to a person who sees a reflection of himself from a mirror through light. Without light, there could be know reflection of the source of the image, nor a reflection of that person back to himself in order that he may recognize it and appreciate it. The person, his reflection and light are merely a material analogy of the First, Second and Third Persons of the Most Holy Trinity.

One word to describe the Divine Intimacy, interaction and communication that takes place within the Most Holy Trinity is "appreciation". Each Person recognizes the value, worth, and merit of the Infinite Divine Essence and Nature, the Infinite Goodness, the Highest Good, that which defines Good and Holiness in the other two Persons. Each grasps, perceives, is aware of and conscious of the existence of the Divine Essence in each other and is in "admiration" of the other two Persons, so to speak. Each takes delight and is well pleased in the other two Persons. When God created Creation, He "saw that it was good", a finite reflection of His infinite Glorified Self. How much more does God see His own Goodness amongst the Three Divine Persons each possessing infinite attributes to infinite perfection in one Divine Nature and Essence. One of God's attributes is that He is reflective and communicates Love. Love can not be reflected from or communicated amongst one person, as one who gives and one who receives. Communication requires two or more persons.

Communication amongst two persons in God is eternally associated to a third person. If there were more than three persons in God, then an infinite number of persons would be "generated" and "proceeded from". So therefore, there is only exactly Three Distinct Persons in One God who is One Spiritual Being, the First Person, Second Person and Third Person, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost in One God each possessing the Divine Essence and Nature, "He Who Is" in three Divine acts of Knowing, Understanding and Loving.

Holy Scriptures tell us "And there are Three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one." Anyone who knowingly rejects one or more Persons of the Most Holy Trinity rejects the entire God-Head.

Holy Scriptures teach us: "In the beginning was the Word" which teaches us that the Word, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, existed at the beginning of creation, when time began. The Word likewise existed before time in the Bosom of the Father, in eternity, the Eternal Word. The Word, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity became Incarnate by the Power of the Holy Ghost of the Blessed Virgin in time. The Word, the Only Begotten Son of the Father, is of the same nature and substance, which is Divine. This is taught in Holy Scriptures: "the Word was with God: and the Word was God". The Word is God the Father's "thought" of Himself, and thus the perfect image and reflection of Himself. The Word, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, was not given His Holy Name until the time of the Most Holy Incarnation when the Archangel Gabriel, a messenger from God the Father, relayed the message to the Blessed Virgin Mary, that the Word should be given the Holy Name Jesus. God the Father Willed for the Word to be named Jesus which means Savior. Jesus is the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity and the Father is the First Person of the Most Holy Trinity, and the Holy Ghost is the Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity, and the First, Second, and Third Persons always existed in eternity even before God created time. The Second Person always communicated with and loved the First Person in eternity even before time was created. All Three Persons have always communicated with and loved each other in eternity and in time. The Second Person, Jesus Christ, continued to always communicate with and love the First Person, God the Father, in time while on earth, as well as God the Holy Ghost, and will always communicate with and love God the Father and God the Holy Ghost in eternity.

Clearly, The Holy Mystery of The Most Holy Trinity is far beyond all human comprehension!