Tag Archives: Trinity Sunday

Trinity Sunday: playing favourites

Posted on May 31, 2026 by Rosalind C Hughes

Is it wrong to have a favourite person of the Trinity?

One of the things I love about Trinity Sunday, which is always the first Sunday after Pentecost, is how we find ourselves thrown into confusion by the image of a God who is One, who is Three, who is Spirit, who is Incarnate, who has known breath and who breathed breath into being. We are tempted to try to make sense of it all, with pictures and patterns of three-leafed clovers and Celtic knots. But God is not a mathematical problem, and God – while we can see God everywhere – God will always be more than our vision can contain, or our words describe, or our hearts need.
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Trinity Sunday: we who are many are one

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

It is the mutuality of the Trinity that we seek. We hear its echoes in our prayers: “though we are many, we are one body” (Romans 12:5). We come closest to it when we experience compassion. Continue reading →

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Trinity Sunday: what will become?

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Rosalind C Hughes

Christ calls me to repentance. If I am to call myself a Christian, I have to do the work. Continue reading →

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Trinity Sunday, 2019

Posted on June 16, 2019 by Rosalind C Hughes

Within God’s perfect being is the reconciliation of relationship, the interplay of love, the communication of difference and solidarity. Those aspects of God promise that we are understood, that we are accepted in all of our difference, diversity, struggle, and longing; that within the heart of a God who knows all about it from experience, we are healed. Within the heart of a God who knows even brokenness, betrayal, the shadow sides of love, we are recognized, accepted, restored. Continue reading →

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Fridays are for mortality

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Rosalind C Hughes

The choice of incarnation, an island carved out of immortality, implies that God is not immune to hard weeks. Continue reading →

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Songs of praise to the Trinity

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Our ancient creeds, our struggles to articulate what it means to say that God is God lead always, if they are faithful, back to worship: wonder, love, and praise that God, our God, should be so gracious as to bless us with God’s very being. Continue reading →

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Trinity 2016: Delight

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

Wisdom calls out – the wisdom of God; we may know her as the Holy Spirit. When she is spoken aloud, she becomes the Word. The Word was in the beginning, the yet unspoken, ever articulate Wisdom of God. Only … Continue reading →

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Trinity Sunday 2013

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

(A sermon I won’t be there to preach, ironically because I am “suffering” from shingles. But my love and prayers are with the parish of Epiphany this morning, and I’m so glad to be in a relationship with them.) I … Continue reading →

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Trinity

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Trinity (in preparation for Sunday) When the children were little, and they wouldn’t listen, they wouldn’t play nicely, or tidy their toys, or eat their greens, or let go of the poor cat’s tender tail, I would say, “I’ll count … Continue reading →

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