Trinity
Sunday
“Abba,
Father”
So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according
to the flesh — for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by
the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who
are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a
spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of
adoption. When we cry, "Abba!
Father!" it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if
children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ — if, in fact,
we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
Romans 8:12-17
Holy Trinity *
Masaccio
1426-1428
Fresco
Santa Maria
Novella
God cannot
be grasped by the mind.
If he could
be grasped he would not be God.
~ Evagrios
of Pontus **
It is plain,
then, that there is a God.
But what he
is in his essence and nature is
absolutely
incomprehensible and unknowable.
God then is
infinite and incomprehensible;
and all that
is comprehensible about him
is his
incomprehensibility.
~ John of
Damascus ***
A Memorial
Day treat for Martha and Bob Zavodsky!
This
gorgeous bruin visited their back yard (1/2 mile from here) before scampering
back to Elk Meadow.
Carol Dobbs
with two of her three sculptures in the
Members Show
at the Center for the Arts Evergreen.
Tom Newsom,
a member of our Wednesday Breakfast Group,
was happy to
see that red ‘sold’ dot by his painting!
Detail of Recital for Sargeant O’Reilly [sic]
By Tom
Newsom
Tom Ware, sculptor, unveiled his third annual fundraiser poster, “Make the Van Gogh!”
http://www.tomwaresculptor.com/
Nine rapidly
growing goslings at the lake this morning!
The garden
by the dam with sculptures Abel, by Tom Ware,
and Oh, God! by Maureen K. Scott.
On Friday
afternoon, Art for the Mountain
Community
uninstalled
16 sculptures from last year’s Sculpture Walk and, on Saturday morning,
installed 14 new sculptures for this year’s Sculpture Walk. In addition to these, AMC now has more than
30 permanent sculptures in place.
Michael
Mladjan installed his newest sculpture, “Tigris,”
at the lake
on Saturday morning.
http://www.mladjan.com/index.html
Trinity is a mystery, not a puzzle.
Love is a mystery, a crossword is a puzzle.
You try to solve the puzzle,
you stand in awe before a mystery.
~ Justo Gonzalez
June 3, 2012 Trinity Sunday
Previous OPQs
may be found:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
* Memento Mori
As I am now, so you shall be As you are now, so
once was I.
Brunelleschi and the
(Re)discovery of Linear One-Point Perspective
Masaccio was the first
painter in the Renaissance to incorporate Brunelleschi's discovery in his art.
He did this in his fresco called The Holy Trinity, in Santa Maria Novella, in
Florence. See an interesting discussion of it at Smart History
(below)!
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/holy-trinity-santa-maria-novella-florence.html
** The desert father and intellectual Evagrios of Pontus (345–399), spent the
last sixteen years of his life among unlettered Coptic peasants in the harsh
Egyptian desert.
*** The Syrian monk and bishop John of Damascus (676–749) wrote this
in his Exposition of the Christian Faith (I.4).
Trinity Sunday … Many liturgies this
Sunday will include the sixth-century Athanasian Creed, that "we worship one God in
trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the persons; nor dividing
the essence." We don't know who wrote the Athanasian Creed, but it's
careful to make both affirmations and denials.
The 
thanasian 
reed
(QUICUNQUE VULT)
[Alternate readings in brackets]
1.
Whosoever
will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic
Faith.
2.
Which
Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall
perish everlastingly.
3.
And
the Catholic Faith is this:
That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity,
4.
Neither
confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance [Essence].
5.
For
there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy
Ghost.
6.
But
the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the
Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal.
7.
Such
as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost.
8.
The
Father uncreate [uncreated], the Son uncreate [uncreated], and the Holy Ghost
uncreate [uncreated].
9.
The
Father incomprehensible [unlimited], the Son incomprehensible [unlimited], and
the Holy Ghost incomprehensible [unlimited].
10.
The
Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal.
11.
And
yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal.
12.
As
also there are not three incomprehensibles [infinites], nor three uncreated,
but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible [infinite].
13.
So
likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Almighty.
14.
And
yet they are not three Almighties, but one Almighty.
15.
So
the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God.
16.
And
yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
17.
So
likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Ghost Lord.
18.
And
yet not three Lords, but one Lord.
19.
For
like as we are compelled by the Christian verity: to acknowledge every Person
by himself to be both God and Lord,
20.
So
are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion, to say, There be [are] three Gods,
or three Lords.
21.
The
Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten.
22.
The
Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten.
23.
The
Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor
begotten, but proceeding.
24.
So
there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy
Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts.
25.
And
in this Trinity none is afore, or after other; none is greater, or less than
another [there is nothing before, or after: nothing greater or less];
26.
But
the whole three Persons are co-eternal together and co-equal.
27.
So
that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in
Unity is to be worshipped.
28.
He
therefore that will be saved must [let him] thus think of the Trinity.
29.
Furthermore,
it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the
Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
30.
For
the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, is God and Man;
31.
God,
of the Substance [Essence] of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man,
of the Substance [Essence] of his Mother, born in the world;
32.
Perfect
God and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting;
33.
Equal
to the Father, as touching his Godhead; and inferior to the Father, as touching
his Manhood.
34.
Who
although he be [is] God and Man, yet he is not two, but one Christ;
35.
One,
not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking assumption of the
Manhood into God;
36.
One
altogether, not by confusion of Substance [Essence], but by unity of Person.
37.
For
as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and Man is one Christ;
38.
Who
suffered for our salvation, descended into hell [Hades, spirit-world], rose
again the third day from the dead.
39.
He
ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God [God the
Father] Almighty,
40.
From
whence [thence] he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
41.
At
whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies
42.
And
shall give account for their own works.
43.
And
they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have
done evil into everlasting fire.
44.
This
is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully [truly and
firmly], he cannot be saved.
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/creeds/athanasn.htm
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day
appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
http://www.heartlight.org/powerpoint/601.html
http://www.cruzblanca.org/hermanoleon/sem/b/fie/trinidad/trinidad.htm
Isa. 6:1–8
Ps. 29
Rom. 8:12–17
John 3:1–17