The Trinity
The sculpture above and behind the
altar in our parish church symbolizes the basic truth of our Catholic
faith, the Trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Upon this doctrine
rests the entire structure of our faith.
It is difficult to put into concrete terms a spiritual
idea. Hence, tradition has always pictured God the Father in the role
as a great old man with a long beard, or sometimes artists have represented
Him as a hand or as a large eye.
In discussing the idea of a Trinity sculpture with
the artist, Mr. Gubilini from Paris, France, the designers of the church
tried to create a more representative idea of God the Father by a burst
of rays emanating in every direction from a central source; thus creating
some physical concept of the omnipresence, the omniscience, the omnipotence
of God the Creator reaching out to every corner of space in this great
universe.
Jesus Christ, God the Son, is portrayed both as
Christ the Crucified Redeemer and Christ Glorious in His triumphant resurrection.
Hence, the body of Christ is shown without the cross, yet, Christ is represented
both in the crucified form as well as the resurrected Christ.
The symbol of the Holy Spirit is presented in a
combination of two forms in which He appeared in the New Testament. The
form of a dove, in which He appeared at the baptism of Christ, and, the
form of a tongue of fire, in which He appeared to the apostles and the
Blessed Virgin on the birthday of the church, the first Pentecost.
People interested in the arts have observed how
successfully young Gubilini, in this metal sculpture of the Holy Trinity,
has bridged in some degree the gap between classic realism of the Renaissance
and the neo abstraction trend so evident in our contemporary art.
The sculpture itself is fashioned out of satin
finish hammered brass and silver. The size of the sculpture is 22 feet
high and 12 feet wide and was made solely for St. Mark the Evangelist
parish.