Trinity Sunday: Let us make people in our image
Blessed Trinity Sunday, friends! Today marks the final Sunday before Ordinary Time (also known as "Proper Sundays", also known as "Sundays After Pentecost", also known as "Sundays After Trinity Sunday"!)
If I were in charge I'd call the coming weeks of the calendar Trinity Season. The Trinity exists more than an essential part of Christian doctrine (which it assuredly is) but as the living, loving ultimate reality in which we live and move and have our being.
We are welcomed to the never-depleted communion of Father, Son, and Spirit and find our truest selves in their midst. We move outward, extending this hand of fellowship to the world, not as individuals, but as those who've been deeply and thoroughly welcomed into the friendship of God. When we love the world, we are loving from this pulsing reality of the Triune God.
So, celebrate today well, friends. We are deeply welcomed, loved, and abundantly refreshed to share the love indiscriminately with the world.
For more background of this day, visit our friends at The Homely Hours - Trinity Sunday: A Few Traditions and Links.
Look: Trinity Icon, Scott Erickson - Source
Listen: You Love All Your People, Page CXVI - Spotify | YouTube
Read: Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20
Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for Trinity Sunday
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Do: Read the Athanasian Creed out loud today.
The Church adheres to the Athanasian Creed, but boy-howdy we hardly ever say it out loud together! For efficiency and overall crowd appeal, the Apostles Creed seems to be our go-to or the Nicene Creed when we're feeling particularly earnest in worship. But you can't beat the Athanasian Creed for a robust declaration of our gratitude for the Triune God. That's why a lot of churches will pull this one on Trinity Sunday. I encourage you to read it aloud with whomever you're able to find to join you today.
(*Note: if you're unfamiliar with the language of the historic creeds, the word "catholic" means the universal Christian church, not the Roman Catholic (capital “C”) church.)
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