Today’s Readings – The Most Holy Trinity (Year C)

Commentary on Proverbs 8:22-31; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15

Today’s feast is one which many preachers would prefer not to have to talk about. What can one say that is meaningful about such an abstract concept as the Holy Trinity? In one sense, of course, they are right. It was the great St Thomas Aquinas who said that it was much easier to say what God was not than what he is. In other words, every positive statement made about God has to be immediately denied. If we say God is ’good’, it is obviously true but our concept of ’goodness’, however exalted, is so limited that God’s ’goodness’ cannot be remotely described by our concept of it. And the same is so of every other attribute applied to God.

So when it comes to speaking of the mea … Continue

Yesterday’s Readings – Saturday of Week 10 of Ordinary Time - First Reading

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Paul continues in his own defence. If his behaviour seemed objectionable, it was simply because he was acting in and through the Lord. But he speaks in a spirit not of antagonism, but of reconciliation. He tells the Corinthians of the force that is be … Continue