Robert Barron | – How To Understand the Trinity — Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon


Friends, Trinity Sunday serves as a wonderful opportunity to unpack the life-giving relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Every time we make the sign of the cross, we invoke the power of the Trinity, thereby linking ourselves to the love that God is.

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  1. Bishop Barron, why do the orthodox have a different understanding of the Trinity? They say the Holy Spirit comes only from the Father and not from the Father and the Son, why is that and how do we respond to them?

  2. Great sermon. Great insight by our beloved Bishop. I thought he would mention St. Augustine of Hippo's masterpiece on the Trinity, De Trinitate. In such a short period of time, one simply cannot mention everything that has been written on the mystery of the Trinity. We have just a tiny glimpse of this wonderful BEING. Oh Death, come hastily to be part of this eternal BEING.

  3. You explain complicated things succinctly yet comprehensively. Thank you for not dumbing down your talks (one of your pet peeves). You encourage me to look up words I don't know and to use them when appropriate.

  4. What a beautiful image, those who flee from The Father run straight into the arms of The Son. God IS love and love can not be denied. Thank you and God bless you Bishop Barron.

  5. I loved hearing the term “the three I don’t know what’s”. The faithful struggle to explain God’s nature and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit being wrapped up into that single God. Bishop Baron’s discussion is excellent, as other great theologians, as well as many Saints, before him. Yet, I love the final conclusion that the real nature of God, folded in with the Trinity and with perfect love, is still ultimately unknowable to us mortal beings. God is the Trinity, God is perfect love, God is great, but God is also “I don’t know what.” The key is to understand God’s love for us through the clues he’s left in scripture and the teachings of Christ, and, therefore, trust that he has a plan for us.

  6. Thank you Bishop Barron. I think i need to listen to this a couple more times for it to sink in. My image of the Trinity, though i know it falls short, is the image of a family. You can't be a father without a mother and a child; you can't be a mother without a father and a child; you can't be a child without both a mother and a father. All three are interdependent in order to be a family. I see the family as an image of God. I this a heretical image?

  7. Dear Bishop Baron.
    Thanks for sharing your thoughts of good news of our loard Jesus christ the truth of our God in all your
    sunday sermons which has helped us in numerous ways increase in our knowledge of god.We thank God how he uses your God given talents to bring us closer to him.
    God blesses your lordship and your evangelical work to many many years to contne to serve his flock.

  8. I don’t recall Christ ever saying that he is the one AND the many at 7:25. I recall Christ quoting Deuteronomy 6:4-9 “hear oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” When you add the “and” you say there is 1 God in 3 divine persons… and… the many others. As if to place our Lord in equal. "the diversity" as you speak, this is blatent blasphemy bishop Barron. You build a premise that there is a diversity that exists with the holy trinity… "yes" as if we should accept this.. NO. Any Jew at any point in time, would call that blasphemy. Without hesitation. Any and all Christians should be concerned. Which is true? Corinthians 8:4-6, "…that there is no God but one… Yet to us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto them, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." Or in bishop Barrons words there is this: "diversity of the Trinity AND other gods." Paul wrote about this in 1Corinthians 8, dear christians I beg you seek clarification in the scriptures. There is no diversity of our God in equal with other, "for the other God's of the pagans, are demons."

    You place a worldly philosophy above the law, and I pray God have mercy on those who listen. James 3, that the spoken word is like the ruder of a ship that directs a ship amidst a storm.

    For the sake of the of the sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.

  9. Dear brother Bishop Barron,
    Peace be with you,

    May I refute your honor's claim.
    Catholic faith is the following:
    The Messiah(Jesus Christ)=Father + son + Holy spirit.
    3 numerically and 1 in unity.
    Monotheism definition is 1 numerically and 1 in unity.
    So Catholic faith does not meet the definition.

    May Allah grant you and me guidance to find the truth.

  10. Thank you Bishop Barron on helping us to understand more of the relationship of Father to Son who come together through the Holy Spirit. I also heard in another homily that we should not only pray to God but Speak To God, Listen to his Son and ask the Holy Spirit to guide us to service..You made it even clearer how we need the Trinity in our daily life.We need to get closer to the God of Love so that we can grow closer to the Son and with the Holy Spirit helping us to gather this love that is shown in the Trinity. Thank you for sharing your experience with the Trinity by your homily today.
    God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit be with you as you continue to Spread The “Word” with the people of God.
    Pray for me!

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