The Trinity

God is but one, yet there are three distinct persons subsisting in one Godhead. This is a sacred mystery, which the light within man could never have discovered. As the two natures in Christ, yet but one person, is a wonder; so three persons, yet but one Godhead.

Here is a great deep, the Father God, the Son God, the Holy Ghost God; yet not three Gods, but one God. The three persons in the Blessed Trinity are distinquished, but not divided; three substances, but one essence.

This is a divine riddle, "where one makes three, and three make one." Our narrow thoughts can no more comprehend the Trinity in Unity, than a nut-shell will hold all the water in the sea.

Let us shadow it out by a similitude. In the body of the sun, there are the substances of the sun, the beams, and the heat; the beems are begotten of the sun, the heat proceeds both from the sun and the beams; but these three, though different, are not divided; they all three make but one sun; so in the Blessed Trinity, the Son is begotten of the Father, the Holy Ghost proceeds from both; yet though they are three distinct persons, they are but one God.