When Catholics are having a hard time explaining something they will jokingly say, “It’s a mystery.” There is really only one mystery: God. No amount of explaining, no words, no reasoning will ever tell the fullness of God. There are three aspects of the mystery of God that are central to our faith. First, what is it about the nature of God that led to creation? We use the word Trinity to say that God’s very essence is relational that divine relationshandip spills out in love into creation. The Second aspect of the mystery of God: that God chose to enter into creation. Now the testimony of God is this, that he has testified on behalf of his Son. The seemingly infinite distance between God and humanity has been closed, earth is joined to heaven. And this leads to the third mystery: that humanity gets to share in divine life. We can call it grace, we can call it the Holy Spirit or, as St. John puts it, life: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever possesses the Son has life. No doubt there will continue to be book upon book written about they mystery of God and its aspects but perhaps the best response to mystery is to surrender to it and let the mystery enter into our hearts.
