Trinity Sunday C, 12 June 2022. The Rev. Pamela L. Werntz
Proverbs 8:1-4,22-31. Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice?…”To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live.”
Romans 5:1-11. We boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God…because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
John 16:12-15. I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
O indescribable Holiness, grant us the strength, the wisdom and the courage to seek always and everywhere after truth, come when it may, and cost what it will.
Happy Trinity Sunday! Today is the Sunday after Pentecost that Western (or Roman and Anglican and Protestant) Christians have designated Trinity Sunday, going back in the Latin Church since the Middle Ages. The Eastern Orthodox Christians didn’t get the memo, or didn’t agree with the terms, so they combine Pentecost and Trinity into one Sunday. Maybe it’s a case of “the grass is always greener on the other side of the street,” but that seems like a good idea to me. I’ve confessed to you before that I’ve never been able to get interested enough in systematic theology in general or the doctrine of the Trinity, specifically (not enough to give it its very own Sunday, anyway). Bishop Gates and I were talking about seminary recently and I said something (could have been just about anything) that prompted him to ask, “Who did you have for systematics?” I laughed and said, “I didn’t take systematic theology. It wasn’t even offered.” And that was just as well because one philosophy course as an undergrad nearly did me in. Continue reading