Trinity
From the Vicar
A very warm welcome to all gathered today, and a particular welcome to those for whom it is the first time in St Mark’s Church. We hope you will find the love of God and neighbour in this place.
Welcome to the students and families of Waka Hourua (the senior syndicate at St Mark’s School). Sadly due to covid we’ve been unable to host you on a Sunday for the last two years, so it is particularly exciting to have you back with us. I’m aware as we gather that an entire generation of St Mark’s School students have gone through the school without being able to worship in their church, so I’m particularly delighted to see our senior students back at worship here.
Today many church, including ours, choose to celebrate Holy Trinity Sunday. At one level of course, every Sunday is Trinity Sunday because that is the very nature of the God we worship. Indeed, all of our worship is trinitarian in that we pray to the Creator, through the Son, and in the Spirit. but today we are explicit about it, and we wrestle with that most central question - Who is God?
So, what is our answer?
God is mystery.
That shouldn’t come as a surprise. An eternal being who creates and sustains the universe must be, at least in part, unknowable. I’ve got no idea what goes on in the mind of a seahorse, or a mouse (who share 67% of our DNA), so how on earth could I know God?
But, surprisingly, God is also knowable.
God is knowable because God desires to be known. And God has revealed God’s self in Trinity. God remains one, but encounters us through three ‘persons’. And each of those ‘persons’ comes closer to us. The first person of God makes themselves known through creation, through burning bush, through pillars of cloud, and through prophets and priests. The second person is Jesus who takes on flesh and becomes one with us, redeeming every part of us. The third person is the Holy Spirit who come to bring wisdom and power, and to remind us of the best picture we have of who God is in Jesus.
And why does it matter? Because God reveals that perfection requires a level of diversity and relationship. God, ultimately, is love. And in the Trinity of God love can be given and received, and reaches out to share that love with all.
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