Today's reading are upsetting.
The Old Testament reading from seems unintentionally funny where, in Exodus, God appears as His own herald, announcing Himself and His accomplishments before Moses, the representative of the "stiff-necked people."
Then there is the gospel, John 3;16, the banner of rainbow-haired sports fanatics and the bane of Mohammed. Christ speaks to the night visitor, Nicodemus, about Himself as the Son of God and the promise of eternal life through Him. It is a serious demand and entails a dichotomy between the Father and the Son that Mohammed could not understand. It is a bit sad in its way; this Trinity Sunday always burdens the priest to give some homily on the Trinity and I have never been convinced that any of them understood it either.
But some minds will not accept a mystery.
The Old Testament reading from seems unintentionally funny where, in Exodus, God appears as His own herald, announcing Himself and His accomplishments before Moses, the representative of the "stiff-necked people."
Then there is the gospel, John 3;16, the banner of rainbow-haired sports fanatics and the bane of Mohammed. Christ speaks to the night visitor, Nicodemus, about Himself as the Son of God and the promise of eternal life through Him. It is a serious demand and entails a dichotomy between the Father and the Son that Mohammed could not understand. It is a bit sad in its way; this Trinity Sunday always burdens the priest to give some homily on the Trinity and I have never been convinced that any of them understood it either.
But some minds will not accept a mystery.
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