"I Will Come to you"
YOU HAVE MADE US FOR YOURSELF, O GOD, AND OUR HEARTS ARE RESTLESS
UNTIL THEY REST IN YOU

[St Augustine, THE CONFESSIONS]

May 31, 2026

It seems true that each one of us is a mystery, that we are something more than meets the eye. How often are we surprised to encounter a situation in which we find someone to be other than we thought he or she was? Years ago, when I grew up in Rockford, we had little fear of going anywhere in town on our bicycles at any time of the day or night. That changed when a young man apparently panicked and killed a young school girl from St Patrick Catholic School after school one day. 

I remember that one of my cousins who knew the young man expressed his amazement at what happened. “He always seemed like just another good guy,” my cousin said. “We used to work on cars together. It’s hard to believe that he would do such a thing.”

That incident occurred to me as I was thinking about the Blessed Trinity. We know that the greatest mystery we humans face is the mystery of what God is like. Atheism as a view of large numbers of people or of national policy is something fairly new in human history. There have always been some atheists, but most people and civilizations in our history had some kind of belief in some kind of god or gods as they tried to figure out the meaning of life. 



Now, just like you and I have to reveal ourselves ─ since no one can ever totally have some other person “figured out” ─ if we want to truly be known by someone, so would God have to reveal Himself to humans if He wanted to be truly known. Christians believe that the revelation of the reality of God has taken place in the life and teaching of Jesus the Christ, who spoke of a Father who is “my Father and your father,” and of a “Spirit” whom the Father and he ─ Jesus ─would send us. He spoke as if the Father, and the Spirit and he ─ Jesus ─ are equally One God, although one is not the same as the other. That relationship was later called the Holy Trinity by Christians. We believe it not because we have enough knowledge to know what God is like, but because we believe is truly who he says he is. We trust in his word as Son of God.

Msgr. Dzielak