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Why does the church observe a feast rooted in the Advent story on May 31st, right in the middle of Trinity season? The answer reveals something surprising about how the church orders time, and something beautiful about the scene at the heart of this feast.
The Trinity is not primarily a doctrine to master, it is a God to worship. On Trinity Sunday we look past the acts of salvation to the one who performed them. We have been receiving his gifts all season. Today we behold the giver.
Trinity Sunday is unlike any other Principal Feast. It doesn't commemorate an event; it celebrates who God eternally is: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This week we explore the history, doctrine, and significance of the day the church sets aside to worship the Triune God.
The Season after Pentecost begins tomorrow. The Ember Day gift is this: we begin having seen the King on the throne, having had the coal touch our lips, having said "here I am, send me" before the first Sunday arrives.
The prayer Jesus commands in Matthew 9:38 is answered in 10:1 — the disciples who prayed for laborers become the laborers. We cannot pray earnestly for God to send workers into the harvest without finding ourselves moving toward it.
We entered a harvest we did not plant. Someone prayed for us before we were born. Someone built this congregation before we arrived. The faithfulness of this church is the planted harvest someone else will one day reap. We plant, we water, God gives the growth.