Eucharistic Readings for the First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday: Proper A
Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19 and 20)
This Sunday we remember and give thanks to the three ways in which we try to understand God, One God in Trinity of Persons.
Sometimes what we can’t reason, we doubt. God is Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer of our faith. The key word is “faith.” It is so easy to let not being able to understand fester into doubt. We humans have great minds, but we do not have God’s mind.
We learn from Genesis that God created humankind in God’s own image, in the image of God we are created; male and female we are created. So God brought us into being in God’s Image, spiritually and with an added physical presence. And God assigned us each a sex for adding to our numbers, that is, to multiply. Perhaps it is in this spiritual, trinitarian nature that we share in God’s Image. It was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who said, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but rather we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” We are spiritual, physical, and creative, trinitarian, like God, and made in God’s Image.
From our Psalm 8 today we hear, “What is man that you should be mindful of him? the son of man that you should seek him out? You have made him but little lower than the angels; you adorn him with glory and honor; You give him mastery over the works of your hands; you put all things under his feet.” God is mindful of us, made us only one step lower than the heavenly host, with the blessed possibility of elevating to that next and heavenly level if we just follow God’s plan. And God has blest us with the necessary intellect to master the very planet we depend on for life. I will close with Paul’s words from his 2nd letter to the Church in Corinth: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.”
As we listen to what the Spirit of God is saying to us, let us live to love and to serve, and to teach others to love and to serve, while pondering anew what the Almighty can do. John
Let us pray: First Sunday after Pentecost: 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.
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