Pentecost daybook, 8: Trinity Sunday
My Pentecost daybook for these 8 days of receiving.
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look
The Trinity in Glory - Titian
read
John 16:12-15:
“I still have 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.
all readings for the day: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15
pray
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us
your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to
acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the
power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep
us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to
see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with
the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever
and ever. Amen. (source)
listen
All Creatures of our God and King - John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers ( lyrics here )
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do
Find a labryinth to walk and pray today. Consider the mystery and community of the Three Person'd God we worship. Read the truth that dazzles gradually in Little Gidding by T. S. Eliot.
Here are the last two stanzas:
With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always--
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.