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In the Name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. The catholic faith, that is, the common Christian faith as taught in the Scriptures, and taught by the Apostles is that we worship “ one God in Three Persons and Three Persons in one God .” Today the church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Trinity, a day set aside to contemplate the mystery of the Trinity today and confess our common Christian faith in the words of the Athanasian Creed. But we shouldn’t think that Trinity Sunday is the only time we confess and worship the Triune God. We do so each Sunday. The historic worship of the church drips with Trinitarian praises all throughout the year. We sing the Gloria Patri, “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As is was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.” We praise all three persons of the Godhead equally because the glory of the persons is coequal. The church’s prayers to the Father end “through Jesus Chris...

Grace and Peace be unto you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Trinity Sunday is the only Feast day in the entire church calendar which is not about a specific event in the life of Christ. Instead, it is a day set aside for us to contemplate in a deeper way what we confess every other Sunday of the year: the catholic faith. Not the Roman Catholic faith. Just catholic, meaning universal. The catholic faith is not bound to one specific place, even Rome. The catholic faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity. ” One God. Three persons. Each person coeternal, uncreated, and incomprehensible. That’s the unity. But there is a distinction of persons within the unity. The Father is unbegotten. The Son is begotten of the Father from all eternity, of the same substance as the Father, while the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. You see this ineffable doctrine the most clearly in your baptism. You were baptized in the name of the ...

Order of Holy Communion - Pg. 15 Hymn # 298 Baptized into Thy Name, Most Holy Hymn # 238 All Glory Be to God Alone Hymn # 244 Glory Be to God the Father Introit BLESS- ED - || be the Holy Trinity and the Undi- | vid- | ed | U-ni- ∙ | ty: *             Let us give glory to Him for He has shown mercy un- | to | us. ( Liturgical Text based on Tobit 13:1-2 ) || O | Lord, | our | Lord, | - *             How excellent is Your name in all | the | earth, || You have set Your glory a- | bove | the | heav- | ens! *             Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants, You have or- | dained | strength. || What is man that You are | mind- | ful | of | him, *             And the son of man that You vi- | sit | him? || For You have made him a little lower | than | the | an- | gels, *          ...