Trinity Sunday

This Sunday is Father’s Day. More importantly it is my favorite Festival of the Church year. This Sunday is Trinity Sunday. The Gospel reading for Trinity is Matthew 28:16-20. Wow, what a reading! Jesus says “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me”. This preamble to what follows sets everything up. This reading follows the Old Testament reading from Genesis 1:1-2:4. As you know this is the account of the beginning of all things. We know that Jesus Christ was there in the beginning. In John chapter one the “Word” was there when the Earth and all things were made. The Word was God. The Word became man. That Word was Jesus. God the Son was standing in front of the disciples and referencing His authority. The same authority, the same power that made everything is about to tell the disciples something important.

“Go therefore” comes next. Many times those two words are rushed over. But think on them. Jesus is telling his disciples because I have this authority you are to go and do the following. So “ Go therefore and make disciples of all nations”. Did the disciples rush right out. No! They stayed in Jerusalem where the Church grew, sometimes thousands at a time. Then God allowed the Church to be persecuted causing the Diaspora, the scattering of the faithful. This scattering took the Gospel to all nations just as Jesus intended. Sometimes we are tested in the fire and on the anvil so God’s Kingdom can be furthered. Sometimes God just needs to give us a good kick.




“Baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”.






“Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you”. On this coming Trinity Sunday we will recite the Athanasian Creed. This Creed is the teaching that Jesus was referring to. Pay attention to the words of the Creed you speak. You will state there is only one way to believe in the Trinity and only one way to Heaven. Any other way leads to death. Also we do the teaching but God the Holy Spirit moves the hearer.





“And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age”. That “end of the age” means the end of all things but also our ending. That hand holding yours will be there until you reach the end of this journey through the valley of the shadow of death. Because of this Jesus, death is just a shadow we pass through to the Light of Heaven. Eternal life with God.