Sermon for 6 Jun 2004 -- Trinity Sundaytitle> </head> <body style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <center> <h1> Readings<br> for<br> 6 June 2004<br> Trinity Sunday</h1> <i><a href="http://am-cath.org/Sermons/MP3s/srm20040606.mp3">MP3 recording of this sermon</a></i> <br> <br> </center> <hr><br> <i>Today's First Reading is from The Book of Proverbs beginning at the 8th Chapter and the 22nd Verse (Prov 8:22-31)</i> <br> <br> <i> </i>The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span> When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth; before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men. <br> <br> <hr> <br> <i>La Primera Lectura es del Libro de los Proverbios, empezando en el 8mo Capitulo, y el 22mo Verso (Prov 8:22-31</i>) <br> <br> <span style=""> El Señor me estableció al comienzo de sus obras antiquísimas. En un tiempo remotísimo fue formada, antes de comenzar la tierra. Antes de los abismos fui engendrada, antes de los manantiales de las aguas. Todavía no estaban aplomados los montes, antes de las montañas fui engendrada. No había hecho aún la tierra y la hierba, ni los primeros terrones del orbe. Cuando colocaba los cielos, allí estaba yo; cuando trazaba la bóveda sobre la faz del Abismo; cuando sujetaba el cielo en la altura, y fijaba las fuentes bautismales. Cuando ponía un límite al mar: y las aguas no traspasaban sus mandatos; cuando asentaba los cimientos de la tierra, yo estaba junto a él, como aprendiz, yo era su encanto cotidiano, todo el tiempo jugaba en su presencia: jugaba con la bola de la tierra, gozaba con los hijos de los hombres.</span><br> <br> <hr><br> <i>Today's Song of Praise is taken from Psalm 8: (Ps 8:4-5,6-7,8-9)</i> <br> <br> R. <b>O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!<br> <br> </b>When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers,<br> the moon and the stars which you set in place --<br> What is man that you should be mindful of him,<br> or the son of man that you should care for him?<br> <br> R. <b>O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!<br> <br> </b>You have made him little less than the angels,<br> and crowned him with glory and honor.<br> You have given him rule over the works of your hands,<br> putting all things under his feet:<br> <br> R. <b>O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!<br> <br> </b>All sheep and oxen,<br> yes, and the beasts of the field,<br> The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,<br> and whatever swims the paths of the seas.<br> <br> R. <b>O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!</b><br> <b><br> </b> <hr><br> <i>El Salmo Responsorial se toma del Salmo </i><i>104 (Ps 8:4-5,6-7,8-9)</i><br> <br> <p class="MONICIONES"><span style=""><span style="color: red;">R.- ¡SEÑOR DUEÑO NUESTRO, QUE ADMIRABLE ES TU NOMBRE EN TODA LA TIERRA!</span></span></p> <p class="MONICIONESSIN"><span style="">Cuando contemplo el cielo, obra de tus dedos,<br> la luna y las estrellas que has creado,<br> ¿qué es el hombre para que te acuerdes de él,<br> <span class="GramE">el</span> ser humano, para darle poder?. </span><span style=""><span class="MONICIONESCar"><span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MONICIONES"><span style=""><span style="color: red;">R.- ¡SEÑOR DUEÑO NUESTRO, QUE ADMIRABLE ES TU NOMBRE EN TODA LA TIERRA!</span></span></p> <span style=""></span> <p class="MONICIONESSIN"><span style="">Lo hiciste poco inferior a los ángeles,<br> lo coronaste de gloria y dignidad,<br> <span class="GramE">le</span> diste mando sobre las obras de tus manos.</span><span style=""><span class="MONICIONESCar"><span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MONICIONESSIN"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style="color: red;">R.- ¡SEÑOR DUEÑO NUESTRO, QUE ADMIRABLE ES TU NOMBRE EN TODA LA TIERRA!</span></span></span></p> <p class="MONICIONESSIN"><span style="">Todo lo sometiste bajo sus pies:<br> rebaños de ovejas y toros,<br> y hasta las bestias del campo,<br> las aves del cielo, los peces del mar,<br> <span class="GramE">que</span> trazan sendas por el mar. </span><span style=""><span class="MONICIONESCar"><span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></p> <span style=""><span style="color: red;">R.- ¡SEÑOR DUEÑO NUESTRO, QUE ADMIRABLE ES TU NOMBRE EN TODA LA TIERRA!</span></span><br> <br> <hr> <br> <i>Today's Epistle is from Paul's Letter to the Romans, beginning at the 5th Chapter, and the 1st Verse (Rom 5:1-5)</i> <br> <br> Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.<br> <br> <hr> <br> <i>Epistolo del Carta de San Pablo a los Romanos, empezando en el Capitulo 5o, y el Verso 1mo (Rom 5:1-5)</i> <br> <span style=""><br> </span><span style=""><span style="">Ya que hemos recibido la justificación por la fe, estamos en paz con Dios, por medio de nuestro Señor Jesucristo. Por él hemos obtenido con la fe el acceso a esta gracia en que estamos: y nos gloriamos apoyados en la esperanza de la gloria de los hijos de Dios. Más aún, hasta nos gloriamos en las tribulaciones, sabiendo que la tribulación produce constancia, la constancia, virtud probada, la virtud, esperanza, y la esperanza no defrauda, porque el amor de Dios ha sido derramado en nuestros corazones con el Espíritu Santo que se nos ha dado.</span><br> </span><span style=""> </span><br> <hr> <br> <i>+A Reading from the Gospel of John, beginning at the 16th Chapter, and the 12th Verse (John 16:12-15)</i> <br> <br> At that time, Jesus said to His disciples:<br> <br> "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. "<br> <br> <hr> <br> <i>+Lectura de Santo Evangelio según San Juan, empezando en el 16mo Capitulo, y el 12mo Verso (Juan 16:12-15)</i> <br> <br> En aquel tiempo dijo Jesús a sus discípulos: <p class="MONICIONES">- Muchas cosas me quedan por deciros, pero no podéis cargar con ellas por ahora: cuando venga él, el Espíritu de la Verdad, os guiará hasta la verdad plena. Pues lo que hable no será suyo: hablará de lo que oye y os comunicará lo que está por venir. Él me glorificará, porque recibirá de mí lo que os irá comunicando. Todo lo que tiene el Padre es mío. Por eso os he dicho que tomará de los mío y os lo anunciará. <br> </p> <hr> <hr> <center><br> <h1>Sermon<br> for<br> 6 June 2004<br> Trinity Sunday</h1> </center> The First Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday, and today's readings reveal various aspects of the Mystery of the Holy Trinity.<br> <br> Today's first Reading, from the Book of Proverbs, has God's Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia in Greek) talking about Her -- for in the Hebrew, the speaker is definitely feminine -- involvement in Creation, and Her birth from the earliest time, before all Creation. "Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span> When there were no depths I was brought forth; when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth; before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world."<br> <br> The figure is also Christ -- Second Person of the Trinity, of whom the Creed says: "And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages." St. John's Gospel says of Him: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. "<br> <br> And precisely here is the connection between the "feminine" Wisdom, and the "masculine" Christ -- she was there "...when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men." He was: "born of the Father before all ages." The Wisdom of the Lord is contained in the Word of the Lord, and that Word and Lord is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity -- Jesus Christ -- "...by whom all things were made...".<br> <br> <br> In Today's Epistle, Paul tells the Romans that we are joined with Jesus -- and know Him -- through the power of the Holy Spirit.. We saw that Spirit poured out on the Apostles last week at Pentecost, and from them, it flows through the historic Church to us. Through Christ, in turn, we have access to and connection with the Father -- we are made one with Jesus in the Spirit, and one with the Father in Jesus -- we participate in the Love and interaction of the ineffable Godhead through the ordinary daily staples of Bread and Wine, which are transformed and lifted up in the Liturgy, to become the Body and Blood of Christ, which also become intimately part of us through our mouths and stomachs, as He likewise becomes joined with our souls.<br> <br> Jesus speaks of the Spirit in Today's Gospel -- the One who will come, who will: "...guide you into all truth...", who will "...take what is mine and declare it unto you..."<br> <br> So here, in small, we have the Doctrine of the Trinity -- Father and Creator; eternally-begotten Son -- by whom all things were made; and eternally emanating Spirit -- the Lord, the giver of Life. Three very different Persons, one transcendant God. <br> <br> And we pray, as every generation of Christians since the first Pentecost has prayed:<br> <br> In the Name of the Father +<br> And of the Son +<br> And of the Holy Spirit +<br> <br> Amen. <hr> <p><a href="http://www.am-cath.org/oldserm.html">Previous Sermons</a></p> </body> </html>