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Why we celebrate Trinity Sunday

At Parish Communion and Holy Baptism Romans 5:1-5 Trinity Sunday, 15.6.25 “We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ … God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.” [1] It is Trinity Sunday, the day when we celebrate a defining truth of the Christian Faith - that God is One and God is Three; One God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Talk of the Trinity, however, may make us pause.  God is One and God is Three might sound like an odd algebra formula, hardly the sort of thing that is important for day to day Christian Faith. Perhaps the Trinity is one of those issues to be left to the theologians and their weighty books, irrelevant to us ordinary Christians. Or, and you do not have to go very far online to encounter this idea, maybe the Trinity is a complex theory that theologians and philosophers invented centuries after the New Testament was written. The word ‘Trinity’, after all, does not appear anywhere in the Biblet. ...

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