Before I entered
seminary, I was a math teacher, which makes me wonder if that’s why they asked
me to preach here on Trinity Sunday. But,
no amount of mathematical trickery can magically make ‘sense’ of the 3-in-1,
because the Trinity is not a puzzle to be solved, but someone to
adore. We’re not here to ‘make sense’ of
the Trinity, because sense is fundamentally the wrong thing to try to make out
of Love. Love is the thing to make out
of Love: wonder, love, awe, praise and adoration. When we confess God as Trinity, we are
confessing the simple, delightful, death-dying truth that God is Love, and to
do so grateful to theologians who have loved this God, drawn close to this God
in prayer, and given us words to help us approach the awesome mystery.
Sunday, May 22, 2016
God brings us to share the glory of love – John 16:12-15, Prov 8:22-31, Rom 5:1-15 (Trinity)
Trinity Sunday, Year C -- Notre Dame (Basilica of the Sacred Heart)
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Jesus dwells with us ever more openly – John 14:23-29, Rev 21:10-14, 22-23
Easter, Year C, Week 6; FWSB TV Mass for the homebound and incarcerated.
I used to be really
jealous of the people who had known Jesus during his earthly ministry; the
zeroth generation of disciples, if you like.
The fact that they got to walk and talk with Jesus, to converse, to eat,
to hunger… to interact with him in the same way as we interact when presented
with any other regular living human.
But, as time has gone on, I’ve become more and more appreciative of
living in this time, the time of the first, second, third… whatever number
generation we’re on of being disciples, the time of the church.