Trinity Sunday 2022 Yr C
God did not communicate himself to us via a Tweet, but as Trinity, involved in Creation, incarnate among us in redemption - looking us in the eye - and coming into us and drawing us into him through the Spirit. We are called not to understand this fully, but to experience it fully so that we can be fully one with God.
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What is the relevance of the Trinity in today’s world?
First, God is not part of this creation - he is
The reading in Proverbs talks about Wisdom, but in Scripture there is both a Wisdom Christology and a Wisdom pneumatology, for the one God is both Son and Spirit as well as Father.
They are outside of creation and are the ground of creation, but they are plural because they are love and one cannot have love without a seeker who seeks the good of the other.
So in Genesis God breathes his Spirit over the chaotic waters and creation ensues and yet the Son is the Word and the Word is spoken in each category of creation.
In the completed creation the Father has a temple in Eden from which he comes in the evening to commune with humanity in the Temple garden.
And yet, God always just is and always is one
Now in Romans we find we have access to God through Jesus Christ
But who is Jesus Christ?
We had broken away from God, setting ourselves up as our own standards and that broke us from one another and from the creation
God did send messages to us, calling us back, but always through a person who knew him.
His culmination was in the joining of the Son to humanity so he could look us in the eye, speak to us with the right voice tone and body language, and ultimately share his own flesh and blood with us.
God did not send a Tweet; he sent Jesus. And the Jesus we know is the Jesus who leads us even now.
Finally, in John, as well as Romans, we hear about the Spirit
[Brothers and] Sisters, I remind you of what you have heard: the Trinity is essential to our life, from creation to redemption to ongoing glorification. The Trinity is our life.
Readings
FIRST READING
Proverbs 8:22–31
22 “The LORD begot me, the beginning of his works,
the forerunner of his deeds of long ago;
23 From of old I was formed,
at the first, before the earth.
24 When there were no deeps I was brought forth,
when there were no fountains or springs of water;
25 Before the mountains were settled into place,
before the hills, I was brought forth;
26 When the earth and the fields were not yet made,
nor the first clods of the world.
27 When he established the heavens, there was I,
when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep;
28 When he made firm the skies above,
when he fixed fast the springs of the deep;
29 When he set for the sea its limit,
so that the waters should not transgress his command;
When he fixed the foundations of earth,
30 then was I beside him as artisan;
I was his delight day by day,
playing before him all the while,
31 Playing over the whole of his earth,
having my delight with human beings.
RESPONSE
Psalm 8:2a
2 O LORD, our Lord,
how awesome is your name through all the earth!
I will sing of your majesty above the heavens
PSALM
Psalm 8:4–9
4 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars that you set in place—
5 What is man that you are mindful of him,
and a son of man that you care for him?
6 Yet you have made him little less than a god,
crowned him with glory and honor.
7 You have given him rule over the works of your hands,
put all things at his feet:
8 All sheep and oxen,
even the beasts of the field,
9 The birds of the air, the fish of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas.
SECOND READING
Romans 5:1–5
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access [by faith] to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, 4 and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy Spirit that has been given to us.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Revelation 1:8
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.”
GOSPEL
John 16:12–15
12 “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. 13 But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. 15 Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Notes
SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2022 | ORDINARY TIME
TRINITY SUNDAY
Sunday after Pentecost
YEAR C | ROMAN MISSAL | LECTIONARY
First Reading Proverbs 8:22–31
Response Psalm 8:2a
Psalm Psalm 8:4–9
Second Reading Romans 5:1–5
Gospel Acclamation Revelation 1:8
Gospel John 16:12–15