Pastoral Care

~Trinity Sunday -The First Sunday after Pentecost – Year C.

~8:00 AM Holy Eucharist Rite I in the Chapel.

Trinity Sunday 2019 Rite I

~9:30 AM Chancel Choir Rehearsal in the Chancel.

~10:15 AM Holy Eucharist Rite II in the Main Sanctuary.

Trinity Sunday 2019 Rite II

~3:00 PM Youth Group.

A Note on Today’s Readings         Trinity Sunday: The First Sunday after Pentecost—Year C

The first Sunday after Pentecost has been celebrated as a feast in honor of the Holy Trinity since the tenth century. Most festivals of the year celebrate a historical event, and although we celebrate a doctrine today, it is a doctrine based on historical events that revealed the nature of God as the Holy Trinity.

The first reading is from Proverbs. Here Wisdom speaks. She is the personification of God’s mighty power. Wisdom describes herself as God’s agent in creating the universe. Here we find an indication of the multipersonal God fully revealed as the Holy Trinity by Christ. In the reading from Romans, we find Paul articulating the growing discovery of the first Christians that we experience God’s salvation as the work of the Father, of Jesus, and of the Holy Spirit.

In the Gospel reading from John, Jesus describes the work of the Father, the Spirit, and himself as the work of the one God. This is not a developed doctrine of the Trinity (one was not fully developed by the church until the fifth century), but in it God is described as a dynamic relationship into which we are incorporated through the Holy Spirit.

We come together to celebrate the Eucharist, and, called together by the Spirit, we encounter Christ in word and sacrament revealing the Father, and leading us into that eternal exchange of love which is at the heart of the Blessed Trinity.

from The Rite Light: Reflections on the Sunday Readings and Seasons of the Church Year.
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