Trinity Sunday
The Feast of the Holy Trinity, also called Trinity Sunday, falls on the first Sunday after Pentecost when we celebrate the triune God - Father, Son, and Spirit. It is a complex, and mysterious doctrine that attempts to explain the mystery of God’s nature.
In the Bible the term ‘Trinity’ does not appear, but God is described in many ways: God the Father and Creator, Christ, the Redeemer – God and human, and the Holy Spirit the Sustainer and Life-Giver, all three persons being one God.
The doctrine of the Trinity was developed to off-set the many heresies that circulated in the Early Church around God. The Church celebrates this teaching from as early as the 10th century. And even though we can’t explain God it helps us to better grasp the otherness and untamable vastness of God.
Our worship is Trinitarian, and all we do is in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. One in Three, Three in One. The one God is a community, and through baptism we become part of this community.
On Trinity Sunday we celebrate God Father Son and Holy Spirit’s salvation of all creation.
The liturgical colour for Trinity Sunday is white, which symbolizes purity, holiness, and virtue, as well as respect and reverence.
