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THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading: Proverbs 8:22-31
Psalm: Ps 8:4-9. "O Lord our God how wonderful your name in all the earth"
Second Reading: Romans 5:1-5
Gospel Acclamation: cf Revelation 1:8
Gospel: John 16:12-15
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Please listen to my audio recordings of the readings, prayers, and reflections for the The Most Holy Trinity Sunday. Year C. - Sunday, June 16, 2019, by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/trinity-sunday-c-faith-hope-and-love-ep162/s-Ys6aJ (EPISODE: 162)
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This weekend, the feast of the Most Holy Trinity is a celebration of the very inner nature of God. This inner nature of God is such a profound mystery that we will never fully be able to express it, but it is so very helpful to comprehend it, as far as humanly possible.
It is the mystery that there is ONE God… and only one God… and that God, in his own divine nature, is three persons, equal in majesty…. One in nature, (as God), but three distinct persons within this one nature… Father, Son and Holy Spirit…
This Means… God's very nature and essence are about community, diversity, unity, and sharing. God is, by nature, generous, loving, giving, sharing and so much more…..
So much has been written about the Trinity… as a means of explaining its meaning to us, as believers…. Some very insightful Spiritual writers have captured some very profound ideas about God – the Trinity of persons…..
For example…. Within God there is a perfect ease when it comes to the concepts of authority……."….Christ willingly submitted to the Father, without a word of protest. It is precisely that willingness that we are called to imitate in submitting ourselves to God the Father's authority. …..(So)….Jesus… who is one with the Father…. Is also perfectly comfortable to subordinate himself to the Father…. And the Father, in return, gives his son, all authority and power……… .Within the Holy Trinity we see that the notion of subordination does not carry with it the notion of inferiority. [i]….. In return, the Heavenly Father gives back this obedience from the Son, as a profound re-gift …. So, there is a hierarchy, without domination and without any form of indignity,……. This reminds us that in life, there can be equality of dignity but still distinct roles and ranks…. But that this never means inequality of dignity or lack of importance…… especially where there is mutual respect and cooperation and unity of purpose…..
The Trinity reminds us that God is by nature generous, and giving and sharing……. "God created us so that the joy God has in God's very self might be ours too. God does not simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. God is filled with joy and love, within Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of this internal nature as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we've been created to join the party! [ii]
God as Trinity tells us that God's nature is love…. And a will to include us… share with us … and save us,……. "It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make humanity". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save humanity". [iii]
"The Blessed Trinity is the mystery of mysteries, before which even the (Angels of heaven) cover their faces, singing with astonished wonder their thrice-repeated song…'Holy, Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts.'"[iv]
Because God is Trinity, God is by nature and essence a perfect community of sharing and union and love… This inner nature of community means that God is, by definition, generous, and cannot help but to allow God's loving sharing, generosity to flow out into creation of the universe and of creating the world, and humans and all the creatures in it…. And God's nature as a community in perfect union, cannot help but flow out into inviting his beloved people to share in this life forever too…
In the early church, there were various heresies about the nature and meaning of God … and who Jesus really was….. One of the heresies was that of modalism… which suggested Jesus was not a distinct person but just God wearing a different face…. But really this clearly is unsatisfactory.. and was rejected utterly by the church… because the distinction of the different persons within God is very clear in the gospel … and also, very clear, is the assertion that although the Son is distinct from the Father and the Spirit is distinct from the two others… there is a profound unity at the same time… and hence the mystery of the Three-in-one God that we profess…. Because the heresy of Modalism asserts that there is only one person in the Godhead, it makes nonsense of passages which show Jesus talking to his Father (e.g., John 17), or declaring he is going to be with the Father (John 14:12, 28, 16:10) One role of a person cannot go to be with another role of that person, or say that the two of them will send the Holy Spirit while they remain in heaven (John 14:16-17, 26, 15:26, 16:13–15; Acts 2:32–33).[v]
And so, we celebrate today and always, that Our God's inner nature, motivation and essence is that of a perfect communion of persons, sharing the one nature as God, and lovingly inviting us his disciples to share in this life…. and to echo in our own lives and actions, the profound generosity, community, inclusion, love, respect, diversity, distinction, authority and mutuality, that God's nature inspires.
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REFERENCES:
FR. PAUL W. KELLY
MISSION 2000 – PRAYING SCRIPTURE IN A CONTEMPORARY WAY. YEAR
Shutterstock Licensed Photograph; photo ID: 467095817. Troitsky Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russia-circa July, 2016: holy icon - Image
THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading: Proverbs 8:22-31
Psalm: Ps 8:4-9. "O Lord our God how wonderful your name in all the earth"
Second Reading: Romans 5:1-5
Gospel Acclamation: cf Revelation 1:8
Gospel: John 16:12-15
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Please listen to my audio recordings of the readings, prayers, and reflections for the The Most Holy Trinity Sunday. Year C. - Sunday, June 16, 2019, by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/trinity-sunday-c-faith-hope-and-love-ep162/s-Ys6aJ (EPISODE: 162)
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This weekend, the feast of the Most Holy Trinity is a celebration of the very inner nature of God. This inner nature of God is such a profound mystery that we will never fully be able to express it, but it is so very helpful to comprehend it, as far as humanly possible.
It is the mystery that there is ONE God… and only one God… and that God, in his own divine nature, is three persons, equal in majesty…. One in nature, (as God), but three distinct persons within this one nature… Father, Son and Holy Spirit…
This Means… God's very nature and essence are about community, diversity, unity, and sharing. God is, by nature, generous, loving, giving, sharing and so much more…..
So much has been written about the Trinity… as a means of explaining its meaning to us, as believers…. Some very insightful Spiritual writers have captured some very profound ideas about God – the Trinity of persons…..
For example…. Within God there is a perfect ease when it comes to the concepts of authority……."….Christ willingly submitted to the Father, without a word of protest. It is precisely that willingness that we are called to imitate in submitting ourselves to God the Father's authority. …..(So)….Jesus… who is one with the Father…. Is also perfectly comfortable to subordinate himself to the Father…. And the Father, in return, gives his son, all authority and power……… .Within the Holy Trinity we see that the notion of subordination does not carry with it the notion of inferiority. [i]….. In return, the Heavenly Father gives back this obedience from the Son, as a profound re-gift …. So, there is a hierarchy, without domination and without any form of indignity,……. This reminds us that in life, there can be equality of dignity but still distinct roles and ranks…. But that this never means inequality of dignity or lack of importance…… especially where there is mutual respect and cooperation and unity of purpose…..
The Trinity reminds us that God is by nature generous, and giving and sharing……. "God created us so that the joy God has in God's very self might be ours too. God does not simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. God is filled with joy and love, within Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of this internal nature as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we've been created to join the party! [ii]
God as Trinity tells us that God's nature is love…. And a will to include us… share with us … and save us,……. "It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make humanity". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save humanity". [iii]
"The Blessed Trinity is the mystery of mysteries, before which even the (Angels of heaven) cover their faces, singing with astonished wonder their thrice-repeated song…'Holy, Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts.'"[iv]
Because God is Trinity, God is by nature and essence a perfect community of sharing and union and love… This inner nature of community means that God is, by definition, generous, and cannot help but to allow God's loving sharing, generosity to flow out into creation of the universe and of creating the world, and humans and all the creatures in it…. And God's nature as a community in perfect union, cannot help but flow out into inviting his beloved people to share in this life forever too…
In the early church, there were various heresies about the nature and meaning of God … and who Jesus really was….. One of the heresies was that of modalism… which suggested Jesus was not a distinct person but just God wearing a different face…. But really this clearly is unsatisfactory.. and was rejected utterly by the church… because the distinction of the different persons within God is very clear in the gospel … and also, very clear, is the assertion that although the Son is distinct from the Father and the Spirit is distinct from the two others… there is a profound unity at the same time… and hence the mystery of the Three-in-one God that we profess…. Because the heresy of Modalism asserts that there is only one person in the Godhead, it makes nonsense of passages which show Jesus talking to his Father (e.g., John 17), or declaring he is going to be with the Father (John 14:12, 28, 16:10) One role of a person cannot go to be with another role of that person, or say that the two of them will send the Holy Spirit while they remain in heaven (John 14:16-17, 26, 15:26, 16:13–15; Acts 2:32–33).[v]
And so, we celebrate today and always, that Our God's inner nature, motivation and essence is that of a perfect communion of persons, sharing the one nature as God, and lovingly inviting us his disciples to share in this life…. and to echo in our own lives and actions, the profound generosity, community, inclusion, love, respect, diversity, distinction, authority and mutuality, that God's nature inspires.
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REFERENCES:
FR. PAUL W. KELLY
MISSION 2000 – PRAYING SCRIPTURE IN A CONTEMPORARY WAY. YEAR
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[i] (Author: R.C. Sproul, Source: The Intimate Marriage, p. 45).
[ii] (Author: Sam Storms (paraphrashed). Source: One Thing)
[iii] (Author: J.C. Ryle, Source: Commentary: Matthew 3.).
[iv] (Matthias Joseph Scheeben http://archive.catholic.com/library/God_in_Three_Persons.asp)
[v] http://archive.catholic.com/library/God_in_Three_Persons.asp
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May God bless and keep you.
The Most Holy Trinity Sunday. Year C.
(Sunday, June 16, 2019)
(EPISODE: 162 )
The Lord be with you.
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Brothers and sisters, as we prepare ourselves to celebrate the Lord,s supper, let us recall our sins and acknowledge them in silence.
I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault,* through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.
May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
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Memorial Acclamation
When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord until you come again.
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Trinity
Various Needs and Occasions . IV
Communion side. pwk: LH
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Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.
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