Year B, Lectionary 165
The mystery of the Holy Trinity is an invitation to enter into a relationship with God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. When we enter into communion with God our mission is to spread this bond with the world. When we remain with God, God can remain with us until the end of age.
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“calling God ‘Father’ alone is an act of intimacy”
“Unity is not uniformity. Amen. What we are called to as the children of our Triune God is unity, to be one as that triune godhead is one, three distinct persons, one God.”
“There is no change in God but in terms of revelation there is progressive revelation. God reveals himself to us gradually because of our inability to comprehend everything at the same time that God has always been the same.”
“Over the course of a year the Church celebrates the great deeds that God has done for us and the recurring meaning of all of these feasts can be expressed quite simply as “God-with-us.””
“So people of God, what is the Trinity? The most simple way to understand it is this way: God is love.”
“How should the concept of the Trinity affect us as Christians? Well, if we are most like God in the way that we love one another in our relationships then we are most unlike God when we isolate, when we pull away from the relationships whom God has given us.”
“Let the world know that God reigns, that God is alive, that we as human beings need each other. I am a manifestation of the Living God, you are a manifestation of the Living God.”
“the only authentic way to recognize a true Christian, the true yardstick to use to recognize a Christian is not in how much the Christian knows but how much the Christian loves, for love is all that matters since God is love”
“The Trinity isn't a math problem that we can solve even if it's tempting to try and approach it that way. It's a relationship. We have a God of relationship between each person of God and that is an invitation and a comfort.”
“Like the person who falls madly in love with someone and then can't help but write these corny love songs, like that we the Church we fall in love with God and we can't help ourselves, we try a thousand different ways to express the love that we are experiencing in our heart for God”
“We could spend all day just talking about the theology of the Holy Trinity but if you want to understand the Holy Trinity look at the effect of the Holy Trinity”
“As Church we must be a sacrament of love itself, visible signs of the Trinity. We must act decisively with love in our world in the particularities of our own contexts.”