Grace and peace to you all on Trinity Sunday, a Sunday where we remember the indescribable nature of the God we follow and by whom we are empowered.
Our invitation to worship acknowledges the nature of God, not simply as creator but as redeemer and sustainer through the presence of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Our first lesson from Genesis is the Priestly account of creation and God’s creation of a well-ordered structure with humans and the remainder of creation. The response was the Canticle, The Song of the Three Men, a song of praise to God. The reading from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians elaborates a trinitarian blessing and grace to believers. Matthew’s gospel provided a commission by Jesus to the Disciples to spread the gospel and educate people through the power of the Holy Spirit.
On Trinity Sunday we celebrate the indescribable concept of the Trinity – God as one yet of three natures, which is hard to describe short of heresy. Regarding the Trinity, it is normally better to not explain how the Trinity works, rather it is better to try to explain how we live life 2,000 years after the Crucifixion, often in absence of “hard” evidence, doing Jesus’ work in the modern world. It is often better to remember the relationship provided us with God through the unique and distinct “persons” of the Trinity. Our job is to be empowered by the working of the Holy Spirit, which is passed on in community, which compels us to “look foolish” to bring hope, health, and wholeness in a broken world.
To whom is God and the Trinity calling you to minister and bring a sense of hope in a disjointed world? I invite your comments,
Les+
Lessons: Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Canticle 13; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20
Sermon link: https://audiomack.com/fatherles-2/song/trinity-sunday-sermon-1
