2. When was the word first used? The first surviving use of the term (there may have been earlier uses that are now lost) was about 170 A.D. by Theophilus of Antioch, who wrote: “In like manner also ...

Photo by Sharon Santema, courtesy of Unsplash. In the second week of his 30-day Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius Loyola proposes that the retreatant imagine the Trinity gazing down upon all of humanity.

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” as St. Jerome said, and the hope for any Eucharistic renewal among Catholics in the U.S. depends squarely on them knowing Jesus Christ in the word so ...

To my mind, the Trinity should not be preached or celebrated as such. That seems to suggest that we can comprehend the Trinity, count it among our concepts. But we cannot because the Trinity is not ...