Charity registration No. SC002876
Sunday May 30th. 2010
Feast of the Blessed Trinity
or many of
us, long
before we had
our first lesson
in religion, or
learned to say the Our
Father or recite the
Hail Mary, our parents
taught us how to bless
ourselves and make
the sign of the cross
while they uttered the
words, “In the name
of the Father and of
the Son and of the
Holy Spirit. Amen.”
This distinguishing
symbolic action of our
faith in God being one
in three persons sums
up the feast we are celebrating today. It speaks to us of the
unbounded mystery of God and is the rock from which we
are hewn as well as being the source of our hope and joy.
Our understanding of God as one in three persons came only
by degrees. This was an insight into the life of God which we
could never have discovered on our own, and even after
having been told we still have no understanding of how this
can be. Our knowledge of the Trinity comes from what Jesus
said and did while he was here on earth when he, ever so
carefully and gradually, made known his relationship to God
the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Trinity Sunday celebrates the wonderful mystery of God
who is our Creator, Saviour and Sanctifier and is the centre
of love, which overflows to the whole of creation. The three
persons in the Trinity are so enveloped in each other that
they are perfectly one. Love begins in the Father who
created us and cares so deeply about us that he sent his
only Son into the world as a brother who died for our sakes
and is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who
sanctifies us. Their closeness is a model for the relationships
we must have as Christians for one another—going out to
each other in a spirit of love and unity. We received all the
sacraments in the name of the Blessed Trinity:
Sacraments:
Baptism: we were baptised
in the name of the Father,
Son and Holy Spirit who
came to dwell within our
souls. At the river Jodan, the
Trinity was present when
Jesus was baptised—the
voice of the Father the
descent of the Holy Spirit in
the form of a dove, and Jesus
the Son of God..
Confirmation:
We were sealed with the Holy
Spirit in the name of the Trinity,
and the grace we received in
baptism is strengthened within us
to give witness to God in a world
that is becoming ever more
irreligious and secular.
This is the commitment of a
young person to serve God
faithfully throughout their life.
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