This well known icon simply shows us how the Trinity is a communion of persons. Rublev does not try to solve the mystery, rather his image draws us more deeply into the mystery of who God is.
What better way to prepare for this Sunday's celebration than the following words of John Dunne:
Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;What better way to prepare for this Sunday's celebration than the following words of John Dunne:
Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you
That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp’d town to another due,
Labour to admit you, but oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv’d, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov’d fain,
But am betroth’d unto your enemy;
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
