{"id":4515,"date":"2023-06-10T13:13:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T18:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2023-06-10T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T18:13:17","slug":"thursday-june-1st-2023-trinity-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=4515","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, June 1st, 2023 Trinity Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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St Alban’s Episcopal Church<\/strong>
Bolivar, Missouri<\/strong>

Thursday, June 1st, 2023<\/strong>
Trinity Sunday News and notes for this week Trinity Sunday<\/strong>

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Sunday’s Collect has us pray:\u00a0“Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine majesty to worship the Unity…”\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0


This is actually a wonderful prayer.\u00a0You are probably aware that the Bible doesn’t use the word, “trinity” anywhere.\u00a0And yet in the scripture there is poetic and spiritual awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion within God.\u00a0God is Father – but also Mother, Lord, King, Creator – but God is also the Incarnate one, the Lord Christ; and God is Spirit.\u00a0God is Spirit – but it is the Father who sends the Spirit.\u00a0Jesus is just like God – “in him the fulness of God dwells” – In Jesus, “Emmanuel: God is with us’ but Jesus is not the Spirit and Jesus is not the Father.\u00a0\u00a0In today’s Epistle to the Corinthians ends this way:\u00a0“Finally brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.\u00a0All the saints greet you.\u00a0The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.”<\/em>\u00a0

Paul was a Jew. And yet he had no trouble acknowledging that somehow there is more to God than a God definable by some single term.\u00a0He did not stop being a monotheist when he recognized Jesus as Lord. Or when he experienced the power of the Holy Spirit – sometimes understood to be feminine.\u00a0He acknowledged all of that difference, equality, and inclusion within a single, unified realty: God\u00a0
We\u00a0acknowledge<\/em>\u00a0the Trinity – and\u00a0worship<\/em>\u00a0the Unity.\u00a0

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!<\/em>\u00a0Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee:<\/em>\u00a0Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty;<\/em>\u00a0God in three Persons, blessed Trinity.<\/em>\u00a0

Images of the Trinity<\/strong>\u00a0– a mystery we cannot logically grasp – art sometimes does it better.

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This Sunday – and this Summer<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0
Some of you have asked that we continue the 9:30am Adult classes during the summer. I am not always able to be here, or to lead them, but I am happy for anyone else to step up when I can’t.\u00a0\u00a0This Sunday,\u00a0Paula Shepard\u00a0<\/strong>will lead a class on the elements and structure of Morning Prayer.\u00a0\u00a0But it would be good to have someone lead a conversation about\u00a0mental health and the Church,<\/strong>\u00a0or one about\u00a0music and worship<\/strong>, or\u00a0Christian nationalism<\/strong>\u00a0and its effect on the Church – or\u00a0cross-cultural understandings of theology and scripture.<\/strong>\u00a0The topics are endless – and so are your interests!\u00a0To share them with others is a good thing for everyone – a gift to yourself as well as to the congregation.

Prayer Requests<\/strong>\u00a0
Please pray for\u00a0Becca Cox<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Mother Cathy\u00a0<\/strong>and for all who will travel this weekend to the Institute for Story conference in Savannah.\u00a0<\/strong>“Tell a better story, live a better life”\u00a0<\/em>It’s true. \u00a0\u00a0Please pray for\u00a0Joyce Hensley,<\/strong>\u00a0Bettyann Reed<\/strong>, \u00a0Dana Rocha,\u00a0<\/strong>who are recovering from illness and for those who cannot come due to medical issues or age:\u00a0Ted and Elaine Yarmouth<\/strong>, and\u00a0Melody Adams.<\/strong>

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St Alban’s Episcopal ChurchBolivar, Missouri Thursday, June 1st, 2023Trinity Sunday News and notes for this week Trinity Sunday Sunday’s Collect has us pray:\u00a0“Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}