Trinity 2: Bishop Michael Hawkins (Sermon 1)
So on the one hand, we have this anger and hatred and murder, and its end is death. On the other hand, we have this love and its end is life…
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Our Collect and Lessons today set out the foundation of what will be our whole concern and effort throughout this Trinity season: our faithful commitment to, and our spiritual progress in, the merciful love of God…
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This week we set out on the long green passage through the Trinity season, which will lead us finally back to Advent and the beginning of a new Church year…
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What is life? Does it consist merely in all those things we have and enjoy: riches, clothing, and food? Jesus tries desperately to get us to see beyond these possessions. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
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We are half-way through the Church year, and Trinity Sunday is the fulcrum, the turning point. We celebrate today what God has made known to us, the fullness of his saving self-revelation, and we shall in the next weeks consider how we are to live, in response to and in accord with that revelation.
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The Octave day of Pentecost, which we call Trinity Sunday, celebrates the ultimate fulfillment of God’s purpose in our Redemption, summed up for us today in John’s heavenly vision: ‘A door was opened in heaven’, he tells us, and by way of that door he sees God’s identity and life.
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Together with Christmas and Easter, Pentecost recalls the foundational events of our faith: the Incarnation of the divine Word at Christmas, Christ’s suffering and triumph over death in the Passion and Resurrection, and finally, the sending of the Holy Spirit, which we celebrate today, also called Whitsunday.
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The Holy Spirit does not descend to lead us home: He arrives to be our home. “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”…
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So in the Gospel words of Jesus to us today, he tells of how the Holy Spirit will empower his followers to keep his commandments, to love as he loved, and will teach them the truth and bind them to God, and in God, for ever.
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“He dwells with you, and will be in you.” Humanity is divided in so many ways and along so many lines. Some of these distinctions are part of that glorious symphony of creation…
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