Trinity Sunday – Year C

June 15, 2025

Gospel Lectionary Text

John 16:12-15
16:12 "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

16:14 He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

16:15 All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

Context

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Question

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Reflections

Spirit of Truth

There is a story that has haunted my country for the past six years. It’s the story of those killed in the government’s war on drugs. Police say 6,000 have died. Human rights observers say the number is closer to 30,000. Regardless of whose statistics you use, far too many lives have been taken.

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The Right Word at the Right time

Jesus says, “I still have many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now.” That’s odd to me. Up to this point, Jesus has already unloaded many things on to the disciples - a lot of important things. In fact, we know from 15:15, that Jesus had made everything known to them...

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Love in Motion

This week we celebrate the Trinity. Cynthia Bourgeault describes the Trinity as “love in motion.” Love in motion is the “inner big bang” of God that creates the “outer big bang” of creation. I like that. It’s not only a great way to describe the Trinity, but also a great way to describe mission. Mission…

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Praying Eucharistically - Weekly Homily by James Alison:

Understanding the Bible anew through the Mimetic Theory of René Girard.

Poetry

Some Kiss We Want

by Rumi

There is some kiss we want with our whole lives,
the touch of spirit on the body.
Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell.
And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling!
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-
door and open the love window.

Excerpt from "The Unbearable Wholeness of Being"

by Ilia Delio

If the Incarnation is what the universe is about, a cosmotheandric revolution of love, then evolution is an unfolding theophany , an unveiling of divinity in creation. Evolution is Trinity enfolding space-time. Love overflows into space-time Word, energized by the Spirit of new creation…God is the name of love’s excess, which gives rise to being and transcends being. God, therefore, is always “more” of what any finite being can express. God emerges from within as ever newness in love and is the future of every new love.”

Prayer

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