The Three-Stranded Cord

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 3:42 a.m.

The tensile integrity of a three-stranded cord is far greater than the sum of each of the strands within it. In rhetoric and in literature, there\u2019s something about three-ness that suggests strength, stability, and finality. Fr. Pat looks at a very famous tripodic construction from the Bible.