Every Jew knew, as Jesus knew, that the fulfillment of God the Father’s plan, the one that would put an end to the back and forth history of faith, apostasy, punishment, metanoia by the people of Israel, and reestablishment in God’s favor, was the coming of the Messiah, the bringer of forgiveness and adoption.
“This common essence in three persons is a dance of relationship in which abundant, astounding creativity spins out at every turn, unlimited, unbounded, and yet welcoming in every way to us little finite beings.”
“Jesus prays not that the Father take us from the world before our time, but acknowledges that we don’t completely fit in the world once we have known him, and have touched Love and Immortality.”
“The doctrine of The Trinity arose out of a need to say what was true and what was not true about Jesus, who he was, what kind of being he was.”
Trinity Sunday is the most dangerous Sunday of the year! How can a day be dangerous? Well, maybe it’s not the day itself. But, danger lurks there on the edges…
We are invited to join the dance of unity and inter-relationality that is the nature of being. In these deeply challenging political times, we can be especially mindful to resist forces of hate and scapegoating.
To what aspect of the Trinity and of St. Patrick’s Breastplate can you bind yourself today, just a little more tightly than you did yesterday? What must become unbound in yourself before that can happen?
Have you recognized how the holy Trinity makes their home with you?
Daily Office readings for Trinity Sunday, May 26, 2013: AM Psalm 146, 147; PM Psalm 111, 112, 113 Ecclus. 43: 1-12(27-33); Eph. 4:1-16 ; John
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