Contemplating the Trinity

Silence. Embodiment. Breath.

Rublev’s Icon of the Holy Trinity (15th century)

The heart of Christian spirituality is the Mystery of the Holy Trinity.

This is the ancient wisdom teaching that God is one God, in three persons: Father/Creator, Son/Redeemer, and Spirit/Sanctifier.

We call ourselves “Christians” because we follow the 2nd Person of the Trinity: Jesus, the Christ. But it would be just as accurate — some might say even more accurate — to call ourselves Trinitarians, the people of fai...