Holy Trinity Sunday Year B *Alternate* Third Reading

If Trinity is supposed to describe the very heart of the nature of God, and yet it has almost no practical or pastoral implications in most of our lives … if it’s even possible that we could drop it tomorrow and it would be a forgettable, throwaway doctrine … then either it can’t be true or we don’t understand it!

“Circling Around” is all we can do.  Our speaking of God is a search for similes, analogies and metaphors.  All theological language is an approximation, offered tentatively in holy awe.  That’s the best human language can achieve.  We can say, “It’s like — it’s similar to …” but we can never say “It is …” because we are in the realm of beyond, of transcendence, of mystery.  And we must — absolutely must — maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery.  If we do not, religion always worships itself and its formulations and never God.

Whatever is going on in God is a flow, a radical relatedness, a perfect communion between Three — a circle dance of love.

At the heart of Christian revelation, God is not seen as a distant, static monarch, but a divine circle dance, God is the Holy One presenced in the dynamic and loving action of Three.

Jesus comes forth from this Eternal Fullness, allowing us to see ourselves mirrored, as a part of this table fellowship — as a participant at this banquet and as a partner in God’s eternal dance of love and communion.

The words of Richard Rohr.

R:  They are happy whose God is the Creator, the people God has chosen.

For the word of the Creator is faithful,

and all God’s works are to be trusted.

The Creator loves justice and right

and fills the earth with love.

R:  They are happy whose God is the Creator, the people God has chosen.

By the Creator’s word the heavens were made,

by the breath of God’s mouth all the stars.

The Creator spoke and it came to be;

commanded, it sprang into existence.

R:  They are happy whose God is the Creator, the people God has chosen.

The Creator looks on those who stand in reverence,

on those who hope in God’s love,

To rescue their souls from death,

to keep them alive in famine.

R:  They are happy whose God is the Creator, the people God has chosen.

Our soul is waiting for God,

our help and our shield.

May Your faithful love be upon us, 0 God,

as we place our hope in You.

R:  They are happy whose God is the Creator, the people God has chosen.