Trinity Sunday

… the first Sunday after Pentecost.

The Trisagion – Thrice Holy:

Holy God,
Holy Mighty,
Holy Immortal,
Have Mercy on Us

 

Confessing the Trinity

Via the Irishanglican’s weblog:

“Unless we begun with God-as-God-toward-us and think first of all in forms of God in relation to us and we in relation to God, we shall miss the biblical emphasis upon the Holy Trinity. Christians are baptized into “the Name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” and they know the Father through the Son and in and by the Holy Spirit, even as they look to the Father through the Son and in and by the Holy Spirit. They are led to adore the Holy Trinity and contemplate the relations between the Three Persons only because the Father has graciously called them through the Son and in and by the Spirit. The natural way for the ontological Trinity to enter Christian experience is through contemplation.” (Peter Toon, Our Triune God, etc. page 234)

Trinity Sunday: The Sign of the Cross

The Deacon’s Bench:

“This morning, mass began with something that most of us probably take for granted, and hardly think about. We do it so often.

It’s the sign of the cross.

In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

It’s not just a gesture that we use to punctuate prayer. It’s not just a sign of our Catholicity.

It is a re-statement of our baptism…

More here.