Trinity Sunday Yr A
Trinity Sunday Yr A
11 June 2017
Homily
Today we celebrate one of the essential items of our faith – and possibly its most complex.
Of the things that separate us from the other two Abrahamic faiths, the two most obvious are the Incarnation – that God loved us so much that God became human. Not an avatar, not a projection, but fully, absolutely, helplessly human.
The other is this idea of the Trinity, that God is somehow Three in One. On one level it is a good reminder to us that whatever words we use to attempt to describe God are never enough. God is always more.
One attempt to describe it is to see one as the loving, one as the loved and the third being the love itself – but simultaneously all three at once.
There is a Greek word perichoresis sometimes also used. It refers to dancing. There is a part of me that likes the idea of God, and all of Creation, wrapped – and rapt – in a continual dance.
One truth is brings out is that God is relational and not in a master/servant way. God reaches out always to each of us? How do we respond?
For me, an important part of today’s Gospel passage is the reminder that God did not send Jesus to condemn us. Religion, especially Christianity is often presented in a condemning way, or as being purely condemnatory. This is not our true nature.
Our faith calls us to reach out in love to all, as God did and does through Jesus.
I mentioned above the use of the word perichoresis as an attempt to give an idea of the Trinity.
How do you dance with God? How does each of us respond to our inclusion in God’s dance?