Thought for the week of 26th May

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.    John 3 : 16 - 17

Readings this week :  Isaiah 6 : 1 - 8; Romans 8 : 12 - 17; John 3 : 1 - 17

Thought for this week

This is Trinity Sunday. It is about being enfolded in love. About the completeness of God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, living within the community of divine love of the Trinity. It is a celebration of the perfection of love that brings wholeness, order and life. The love we are invited into in Jesus.

In our human world nothing is ever really completed or made whole. There is always more to be done in terms of poverty and hardship, where there is so much disunity, and ‘history’ is constantly being repeated. Yet the Trinity is about completeness, unity and wholeness.

The Trinity is also about life, and how as humans beings we are invited into sharing the divine life of the Lord who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

As life becomes ever more challenging, the Trinity is less about understanding the life the Lord offers us, and more about experiencing it and living it.

So we are called to celebrate the relationship the Lord offers us. We are called to give thanks for our life of unity and completeness in Him, reflected in the church. And we are called as the church to invite others. To celebrate with us, and discover what being truly loved means.

Rev Paul

Prayer for this week

Almighty and everlasting God, you have given us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity and in the power of the divine majesty to worship the Unity: keep us steadfast in this faith, that we may evermore be defended from all adversities; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Holy God, faithful and unchanging: enlarge our minds with the knowledge of your truth, and draw us more deeply into the mystery of your love, that we may truly worship you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

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