Sunday May 30 Trinity
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Psalm 146
Joy in God’s victorious justice for the oppressed, the blind, the strangers and the orphans—that justice for all is built into God’s magnificent creation. Appropriate for a Sunday, which is the anniversary of the resurrection—God’s victory over all evil.
Psalm 147
God’s wondrous creation and God’s commitment to justice are intertwined. Other cultures are not aware of this. What a helpful insight in our day!
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 43.1–12, 27–33 What’s Ecclesiasticus about?
We interrupt our reading from Deuteronomy today for a reading from Ecclesiasticus (also called Sirach) which extols the magnificence of God and how far God is beyond our understanding. Appropriate for Trinity Sunday today.
John 1.1–18 What’s John about?
John, in his imaginative understanding of what Jesus is about, associates Jesus with the creation of the universe and says Jesus, as the eternal “logos” or meaning, or structure of the universe, is God. The grace we have received through Christ can be understood has having just been given in Pentecost. While John may not have thought this explicitly, Christian have understood this opening statement by John to be an implicit statement of the Trinity – that God is creator, redeemer and sanctifier.
Tomorrow we return to reading through Luke’s gospel, reading Matthew on Sundays.
This week’s collect:
Father, we praise you:
through your Word and Holy Spirit you created all things.
You reveal your salvation in all the world
by sending to us Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh.
Through your Holy Spirit
you give us a share in your life and love.
Fill us with the vision of your glory,
that we may always serve and praise you,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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