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May 2024
14m 56s

Three Ways of Approaching the Trinity

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, we come once again to Trinity Sunday. The Church has reflected very deeply on who God is, and this great doctrine of the Trinity has emerged from that speculation. What I want to do is give you, appropriately enough, three ways of approaching this profound mystery.

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