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One: Come into God’s presence with gladness!
All: The Spirit brings light into our darkness,
hope to our sadness, joy to our mourning.
One: Come into God’s presence with singing!
All: Christ’s love brings faith to our doubt,
promise to our uncertainty.
One: Come into God’s presence with joy!
All: We come, seeking God’s new way of life.
Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, Ridgefield Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church, Crystal Lake IL.
Now the Christian faith is this, that we worship one God in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity.
For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Spirit.
So the Father is God, the Son God, the Holy Spirit God;
And yet there are not three Gods, but one God.
There is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits.
And in this Trinity there is no before or after, no greater or less;
But all three Persons are co-eternal together, and co-equal.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Adapted from parts of the Creed of St. Athanasius, late fifth or sixth century, by Daniel Hayward, Ingleside-Newington Pastoral Charge, The United Church of Canada, South Stormont, ON.
It’s Trinity Sunday! One of my friends once told me it was one of her favorite High Holy Days, and I nearly did a double take on the phone. I’d never thought of Trinity as a High Holy Day before. Or if I had, it was way down the list, far past Easter/Pentecost/Christmas/Advent/Lent/AshWednesday…right up there with Christ the King and T-Fig. but I digress…this high holy day is here.
So, will you be singing Holy Holy Holy, and reading the text that forms the foundation for that classic hymn? Or perhaps reading John 3 (again) and reaching for one of the few vaguely trinitarian moments in the gospels, hoping to extrapolate from there?
Maybe the psalm and its many descriptions of how we can experience God could be the spark that lights a new trinity liturgy? Or perhaps Paul’s discussion of how we interact with God’s Spirit will send you down a perichoretic path?
Or are you jumping into a summer sermon series this week, leaving Trinity Sunday in the dust?
Whatever sparks your imagination, join the creativity in the comments! Who knows, the word you type could be just what someone else needs to build on, or you might find just the right turn of phrase in a friend’s wonderings. Let’s create together!
Submitted by Rev. Scott Cervas, Meadowthorpe Presbyterian Church
Let’s gather…
to catch a glimpse of God’s vision for our lives and all of creation;
to witness the presence of Christ in this place and in one another;
to feel the Spirit of God moving around us, among us, and within us!
We are drawn together as a community
to give thanks, to be renewed, and to share our lives.
So let’s be drawn together now to worship God!
Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church
One: How lovely it is to be in the presence of God!
All: Better is one day in God’s house
than thousands spent elsewhere.
One: Our hearts and flesh sing for God,
our souls long to know God.
All: Holy, holy, holy is God,
the whole earth is full of God’s glory!
One: Come, let us worship God together!
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