PRAYING TO TRIUNE GOD

The ways in which the Trinity is imagined fascinate me. The icon painters of the Eastern tradition draw on the three who visited Abraham and told him Sarah would bear a son in her old age. Look at those figures in the icon above and let them draw you in.

Compare that to the sterile and clean symbolism of the triangle and circle and square.

The Celts loved threes so they took easily to the notion of a Trinitarian God. They even found the world full of representations as this prayer from their tradition suggests. Do you sense a creation that reflects the nature of the Triune God?

Three folds of cloth,
yet only one napkin is there;
Three joints in the finger,
but still only one finger fair;
Three leaves of the shamrock,
yet no more than one shamrock to wear.
Frost, snow-flakes, and ice,
all in winter their origin share,
Three persons in God;
to one God alone we make our prayer.

Is our prayer different when we envision and experience God in these forms?

I’m not ready to move yet to concentrating on just one of the persons of the Trinity. Maybe you are. Either way let’s spend the week in prayer to the Triune God.

Blessings,
Caroline