Blessed Trinity
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- proper noun
- /ˈblɛsɪd ˈtrɪnɪti/
- Formal
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Santísima Trinidad
- In Christian teachings, the Blessed Trinity consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Examples
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The triangle is perfect purity: God, His Son, the Holy Ghost, the Blessed Trinity.
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Blessed Trinity
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As the Mother of the Redeemer, Mary is the Mother of Jesus, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity.
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This person is the Holy Spirit, who completes the blessed Trinity.
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Abiding in the Word of God, being in communion with the Blessed Trinity, is not a matter of degree.
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The Blessed Trinity is an ordered, complementary communion of perfect love.
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We cannot transform love, the truth of love; our Savior, Jesus the Christ, transforms us through the grace and mercy of God, the Blessed Trinity.
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Consider how poor a story you make of Bethlehem if you believe, with Nestorius, that there were two Persons in the Incarnation: the second Person of the Blessed Trinity and the person of a man, Jesus Christ.
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It started back in third grade—a nun was teaching us about the Blessed Trinity.
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The question becomes how much and what sort of change is allowable given the fact that what is hallowed by long usage is a gift of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity: it is He who inspires the fathers and popes to arrange for a fitting celebration of Mass.
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Synonyms
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A Christian belief that God is three persons in one
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A Christian belief that God is three persons in one
Three persons in one God in Christian belief, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Trinity' denotes the three persons in one God and 'blessed' marks holiness or sanctity, so together they mean the holy/saintly three-in-one God. This follows a straightforward adjective+noun pattern and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents (e.g., Spanish 'Santísima Trinidad'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the phrase's meaning.
Etymology
Blessed Trinity comes from early Christians who used a simple picture of one sun with three rays to show three persons from the same source. They called these persons Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so the phrase means 'three in one' and refers to 'one God'.