Trinity Sunday
The God of the Bible is not the made-in-our-image God of moralistic therapeutic deism, but the Father who is creator, the Spirit who is in us and makes us sons of the Father, and the Son who became one of us and still leads us by his presence in us through the Spirit. This is the God to whom we can relate because we are made in his image, not he in ours.
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Outline
Parts of the Church and much of this continent settles for moralistic therapeutic deism
The God of the Bible is our awesome creator
The God of the Bible is the Spirit who is the loving God within believers
The God of the Bible is the Son who became one of us and through the Spirit remains with us, leading us: “behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Sisters, I have not tried to explain the Trinity, but have simply made three statements that together require God to be trinitarian.
Readings
FIRST READING
Deuteronomy 4:32–34, 39–40
32 Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created humankind upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of? 33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live? 34 Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the LORD, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
39 This is why you must now acknowledge, and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other. 40 And you must keep his statutes and commandments which I command you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you forever.
RESPONSE
Psalm 33:12b
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people chosen as his inheritance.
PSALM
Psalm 33:4–6, 9, 18–20, 22
4 For the LORD’s word is upright;
all his works are trustworthy.
5 He loves justice and right.
The earth is full of the mercy of the LORD.
6 By the LORD’s word the heavens were made;
by the breath of his mouth all their host.
9 For he spoke, and it came to be,
commanded, and it stood in place.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon those who fear him,
upon those who count on his mercy,
19 To deliver their soul from death,
and to keep them alive through famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD,
he is our help and shield.
22 May your mercy, LORD, be upon us;
as we put our hope in you.
SECOND READING
Romans 8:14–17
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, “Abba, Father!” 16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Revelation 1:8
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.”
GOSPEL
Matthew 28:16–20
16 The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. 18 Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Notes
SUNDAY, MAY 30, 2021 | ORDINARY TIME
TRINITY SUNDAY
Sunday after Pentecost
YEAR B | ROMAN MISSAL | LECTIONARY
First Reading Deuteronomy 4:32–34, 39–40
Response Psalm 33:12b
Psalm Psalm 33:4–6, 9, 18–20, 22
Second Reading Romans 8:14–17
Gospel Acclamation Revelation 1:8
Gospel Matthew 28:16–20