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Trinity

The Rector's Blog · May 31, 2023

Disciples, Apostles, and Saints!

This week is the first Sunday after Pentecost. It is also known as Trinity Sunday, one of the seven principal feasts of the church year.

What is Trinity Sunday?

We use this day to remember the Trinity: our way of describing the character of God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

How we have one God and also three “persons” is itself a hazy truth. The kind which is like a lucid dream, half-remembered. Nailing it down makes the truth of it disappear.

It is also famously impossible to teach. Most attempts to describe it are mired in heresy. This is why we can’t say it’s like water/ice/steam or a three-leafed clover. We’d love to have such a neat visual to wrap it up in, but alas, we cannot.

What we have instead is conviction. We really are left with “it just is”. Which is not entirely satisfying. But it is also kind of…OK. We can say God is our god. And also Jesus is one of the personas of God.

And that, in its hazy truth, is sort of satisfying. Because we have a God who is present, in different personas, connecting with us in different ways, and making it all real. And that’s more than one god can do.

With love,
Drew

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St. Stephen’s is a sacramental community following Jesus’s Way of Love.

We worship on Sundays at 8 & 10.

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Five marked spots in the lot directly behind the church are available during the week.

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