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encounter with Christ and his church.

The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's word where it is most needed.

Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you. Friends, we come once again to Trinity Sunday, the Preachers Nightmare, which should not be the Preachers

Nightmare, every Sunday is Trinity Sunday. What I want to do, and why not it's Trinity Sunday, is commit a little act of theology here. The church

has reflected very deeply on who God is and this great doctrine of the Trinity has emerged from that speculation.

I want to give you, appropriately enough, three templates for understanding, or at least not understanding, beginning to get a sense of what the

Trinity might be about. The first one is from the great St. Augustine. We're going

back now to the end of the fourth, beginning of the fifth century.

And Augustine gives us this analogy for the Trinity, which has been remarkably powerful

over the centuries.

He knew from the Bible that we are made in God's image and likeness. He knew furthermore that God is not material but spiritual.

Therefore, I won't find the likeness in my body. I'm going to find it in what's spiritual in me, namely my mind. So Augustine looks

deep in, he was one of the really earliest and greatest of the psychologists. He looks in, what does he find?

He finds first of all what he calls mens in his Latin. It just means mind. Our word mental, of course, comes from that.

He notices that our minds have this very peculiar capacity to make an imago, an image, a reflection of themselves.

My mind can project, as it were, outward and see itself objectively. Now I know that sounds kind of abstract but we do it all the time.

Whenever we say, what was I doing yesterday? Huh, what was I thinking? What was, what was I about yesterday when I was doing whatever? And see what's happening in that move is I am proposing me as an object of contemplation.

There's an eye, there's a me.

It's reflected too in the great languages.

Jemudemond in French, right?

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