Hello, Reader!
Today, we celebrate Trinity Sunday—the First Sunday after Pentecost. Join us at 9 AM as Rev. Eileen Shanley-Roberts leads us in worship. We are invited to reflect on the central mystery of our faith: the eternal God who exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is not a doctrine to be solved but a mystery to embrace—the source of all creation, redemption, and life.
FIRST READING – Genesis 1:1–2:4a In the beginning, God speaks creation into being. Day by day, order emerges from chaos, light from darkness, and life from the formless void. God sees each day and declares it good. When God creates humankind, He speaks in the plural: "Let us make humankind in our image." Christian tradition hears in this plural an echo of the Trinitarian mystery—Father, Son, and Spirit, present and active at creation's very foundation. At the moment of creation, the wind of God, the creative Word, and the animating Spirit are all present.
PSALM 8 The psalmist looks up at the night sky and feels not smallness but astonishment. The God whose name is honored throughout the world regards humanity with care and respect. We are created just a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory. All creatures are placed under human stewardship—not as an excuse for exploitation, but as a calling to care for creation in a way that reflects the God who declared it all very good.
SECOND READING – 2 Corinthians 13:11–13 Paul closes his letter not with an argument but with grace: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you." This benediction is among the most concise and beautiful expressions of Trinitarian faith. Paul does not present the Trinity merely as doctrine but as a blessing to be embraced—reflecting the grace, love, and communion that flow from the three persons of the one God into our lives.
GOSPEL – Matthew 28:16–20 The risen Christ appears to the eleven disciples on a mountain and commissions them: "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." Baptism is administered in the Trinitarian name—a declaration that we are drawn into the very life of the triune God. The Gospel closes with the promise that sustains the Church: "I am with you always, to the end of the age."
Trinity Sunday reminds us that the God we confess—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—is the foundation of all that we are and all that we do. We do not seek to solve the mystery; we embrace it.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
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