Love, Revealed
Trinity Sunday
Announcements for June 11, 2022:
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Next weekend is the Diocesan-wide Corpus Christi Food Drive. Food collected will be distributed from diocesan and parish food pantries. Bishop Sweeney has asked our parish to collect pasta, pasta sauce, and toothpaste. You can also contribute financially: checks can be made payable to Catholic Charities or you can give online.
Father Wade's family sent a special thank you to us last week. You can find it in this weekend's bulletin.
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Dear Saints,
This weekend, we celebrate 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 why we want to know more about God is 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. 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 totally away to God both in worship (loving God by making him the very center of our heart and life) and in mission (loving our neighbor, near and far).
Furthermore, our very identity is being in community. Through and with and in Christ, we are inserted into the communion of the three-personal God, which empowers us to create authentic community as we make God's love (his for-the-other-ness) real for everyone we encounter.
Finally, but not exhaustively, it is our being made in the image and likeness of a triune God that drives us to persevere as a people, no matter what challenges and obstacles we have to overcome to do so. Worship and mission aren't added extras of the Christian life -- we simply aren't who we were made to be without them.
I love you, my friends. I'm eager to see you very soon.
In the Love of the Three-Personal God,
Father Daniel
δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ
PS Trinity Sunday is known as Casual Heresy Sunday. Turns out, it's quite a challenge to talk about God's inner life. Check out this hilarious 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.
St. Patrick's Bad Analogies
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Trinity Sunday
The Trinity
José de Ribera, ca.1635