Trinity Sunday

 - May 19, 2016

 

Today’s celebration of Trinity Sunday invites us to acknowledge the mystery of Divine Love as: the Father’s love takes on human flesh in the Son, and is poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Our God is relationship: because God’s very being is self-giving, overflowing love, then we are not alone. Look upon creation and behold the reflection of the Trinity: dynamic, expansive, giving, radiant; extraordinarily diverse, yet a finely differentiated unity.

Faith in the Holy Trinity grounds our belief in the dignity of the human person. Our God embraces us, stands in solidarity with us, dwells within us. Created by a loving Father, we are children of God; redeemed by the Son, we are brothers and sisters of Jesus, and thus of one another; sanctified by the Holy Spirit, we are Holy Ground, God’s own dwelling place. The Trinity is no dry, dusty dogma, a theoretical construct without practical application. It is the core truth at the heart of Christian faith: God is love. God is relationship. God is unity in diversity. God is a communion of equals. And if this is who God is, then all of us, created in the divine image and likeness, are also called to reflect this love, harmony and unity in our own lives.

 
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
 

Sonnet to the Holy Trinity

(Malcolm Guite)

In the Beginning, not in time or space,
But in the quick before both space and time,
In Life, in Love, in co-inherent Grace,
In three in one and one in three, in rhyme,
In music, in the whole creation story,
In His own image, His imagination,
The Triune Poet makes us for His glory,
And makes us each the other’s inspiration.
He calls us out of darkness, chaos, chance,
To improvise a music of our own,
To sing the chord that calls us to the dance,
Three notes resounding from a single tone,
To sing the End in whom we all begin;
Our God beyond, beside us and within.