Our Three-Personal God
Trinity Sunday
Dear Saints,
Let's keep the announcements up top this week:
God is giving us gorgeous days for our Drive-In Mass. Join us again this Sunday in the Walmart parking lot at 9:00am or 11:00am.
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Sunday's Mass is The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The feast is all about who God is in Himself: It gives us an opportunity to reflect on God’s inner, triune, life.
One of the reasons we want to know about God is the fact that we are created in his image and likeness. If we want to know who we are made to be, then we must in some measure know who God is.
God, as he is in himself, is an eternal exchange of glorifying, self-forgetful love. God is a community of persons, a communion of persons. God's very nature is to be totally other-oriented.
Likewise, it is our nature to be totally other-oriented. We discover most deeply who we are by giving ourselves away to God both in praise (in loving him) and for his purposes (in loving our neighbor).
Further, it is our being made in the image and likeness of a triune God that drives us to keep gathering as a church even in the midst of a pandemic, even in a Walmart parking lot. Community - our existence as a worshipping community drawn together to bring God’s love to life in the world - is no added extra of the Christian life. It’s essential.
I love you, my friends. And I look forward to seeing you soon.
In the Love of our Three-Personal God,
Father Daniel
δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ
PS Trinity Sunday is also known as Casual Heresy Sunday. Check out the video below for a number of failed attempts at understanding the Trinity, and take a look at the Athanasian Creed for a little bit of intellectual clarity.
Saint Patrick's Bad Analogies
Preparing for Mass?
Check out this weekend's readings:
Trinity Sunday
Holy Trinity by Francesco Cairo, 1607–1665.