Message from the Vicar for May 23rd, 2024
This coming Sunday, May 26th, we will celebrate Trinity Sunday. In the Episcopal Church, Trinity Sunday is the feast day that celebrates the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is the first Sunday after Pentecost and is one of the seven main feasts of the year. The tradition of observing Trinity Sunday began in 1162 when Thomas Becket was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury.
We will pray this prayer on Sunday:
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
To try and completely understand the Trinity, Father, Son (the Word), and Holy Spirit, can be challenging! One way to look at the Trinity is to see it as the eternal relationship between God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…Trinity in Unity, in an eternal dance of love, love for creation, all of humankind and the world!
From the Book of Common Prayer we find that The Athanasian Creed states that “we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance” (BCP, p. 864). Article I of the Articles of Religion affirms that in the unity of God “there be three Persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; the “Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.”
Together let us, as it says in the collect above, acknowledge of the glory of the eternal Trinity, and to worship the unity!
Blessings all,
Father Jay
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