In a wonderful essay entitled The Doctrinal Power of the Liturgy of the Catholic Church, Dom Anscar Vonier, abbot of Buckfast, notes that the Catholic Church has always managed to present to all generations of Christians the mysteries of her Faith, not only with the greatest fidelity to the very text and meaning of the mystery, but also in a way that speaks to both the educated and uneducated. 'How is it,' he asks, 'that in spite of its baffling abstruseness that doctrine of the Trinity has remained, even for the simple Catholic, a vivid and life-giving familiarity with God, without any intermingling of base anthropomorphism?'
