On this Trinity Sunday, we celebrate the wonders of our God, creator, Christ, and comforter, maker, redeemer, sanctifier, wellspring, word, wisdom. And we seek to love one another, not simply as God loves us, but as God realizes divine love within the difference and union of the Trinity itself.
By those graces we can pray, Come Holy Spirit, and enkindle in the hearts of your faithful the fire of your Love … and we can mean it.
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Instead of focusing on our “production” – our doing – we affirm our place in God’s fold, and we love one another. We nurture dispositions of compassion and generosity. We cultivate graciousness and mercy. And when we love well, that love – God’s love of us, and our love of one another – it’s that love that will inspire our service and collective action: we cannot reorder this process and fulfill God’s hopes for the world!
For only kindness can win the world for kindness, only generosity can win the world for generosity, and only love like lightning can win the world for love.
See what the eldest son fails to recognize: we always tend the fatted calf for our brother’s return. We receive strengths of spirit and nurture them in order that they might benefit all people.
By Jesus’ model, when the world turns to selfishness and judgment, we do not overcome those trials by returning aggression for aggression; we do not give cruelty for cruelty.
Excerpted from the Rector’s Annual Parish Address on Sat., Feb. 8: Think of our being-in-love as a “first fruit” devotion:
To continue the growth of these last years, we must now accompany the widening of our congregation, with a deepening of the same …
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