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Trinity Sunday

Truth and Wisdom

 

O Lord, 
   our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name 
   in all the earth!
You have set your glory 
   above the heavens.

Out of the mouths 
   of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark 
   because of your foes,
to silence the enemy 
   and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens,
   the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars
   that you have established;

what are human beings
   that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?

Yet you have made them 
   a little lower than God,
and crowned them 
   with glory and honor.

You have given them dominion
   over the works of your hands;
you have put all things 
   under their feet,

all sheep and oxen,
   and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air, 
   and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths 
   of the seas.

O God, 
   our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name 
   in all the earth!

Psalm 8

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Starry Night Scavenger Hunt 
Image Credit: Vincent van Gogh; Digital Collage & Copyright: Ronnie Warner

Explanation: Did you know that van Gogh's painting Starry Night includes Comet Hale-Bopp? Hopefully not, because it doesn't. But the featured image does. Although today's picture may appear at first glance to be a faithful digital reproduction of the original Starry Night, actually it is a modern rendition meant not only to honor one of the most famous paintings of the second millennium, but to act as a scavenger hunt. Can you find, in the featured image, a comet, a spiral galaxy, an open star cluster, and a supernova remnant? Too easy? OK, then find, the rings ofSupernova 1987A, the NGC 2392, the Crab Nebula, Thor's Helmet, the Cartwheel Galaxy, and theAnt Nebula. Still too easy? Then please identify any more hidden images not mentioned here -- and there are several -- on APOD's main discussion board: The Asterisk. Finally, the collagist has graciously hidden APOD's 10th anniversary Vermeer photomontage just to honor APOD. (Thanks!)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160918.html

 

 

 

 

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.

It is healthy to be reminded

that the strongest might weaken

and the wisest might err.

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

 

Whoever undertakes to set himself up

as a judge of Truth and Knowledge

is shipwrecked

by the laughter of the gods.

 ~ Albert Einstein

 

 

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man,

and then I will show you a man

that can comprehend the triune God!

~ John Wesley

 

 

 

 

Dine Around

June 7, 2025

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Gayle and Gary McKay and Ollie

 

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Dori Painter, Tom Meyer,  Gary McKay, Gayle McKay, Janie Meyer

 

Book Club at Van's

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Marianne Moritz, Lynn Gilbert, Van Farnsworth, Kelly Garrod, Sharron Leonard

 

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Jen Volmer demonstrating the Royal Wave to use 

on the Rotary float in today’s Rodeo Parade.

 

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Outgoing President Mindy Hanson and President-Elect Erica Sprenkel

 

Spares and Pairs

Honoring the July marriage of ...

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Richard Aylor and Brianna Kneisl

in Florence, Italy.

 

Three of the organizers ...

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Heidi Smithson, Christi Todd, Art Smithson

 

 

Remembering Ruth Salter … in her garden.

It was heartwarming to see so many friends 

from our former Wednesday Breakfast Group.

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Emily and Sammy, Ruth’s great grandson

 

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Loie Evans, Kathi LaTourette

 

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Juanita Weare, Sylvia Robertson, Carmon Slater, Bud Weare

 

ELK ATTACK!

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My formerly beautiful fuchsia.

 

Wonderful dinner and company 

tonight with Bill and Marsha.

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Kimra, Ted, Carolyn (trying to crouch down), Connie, Mike, Ann, Bill, Marsha

(Not pictured: Mande)

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Mike, Ann, Ted, Marsha, Connie

 

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Mande Mischler … soon to be off to Santa Barbara.

 

 

 

 

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man,

and then I will show you a man

that can comprehend the triune God!

~ John Wesley

 

 

 

 

June 1, 2025  Trinity Sunday - Year C

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

12 "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

John 16:12-15

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Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

 

 

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Trinity Knot Symbol

 

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LECTIONARY

Proverbs 8:1–4, 22–31 

Psalm 8 

Romans 5:1–5 

John 16:12–15

 

THE WORD:

As Ordinary Time resumes, two “solemnities of the Lord” are celebrated on the next two Sundays.  Today’s celebration of the Trinity, originating in France in the eighth century and adopted by the universal Church in 1334, focuses on the essence of our faith: the revelation of God as Creator, the climax of his creation in Jesus the Redeemer, the fullness of the love of God poured out upon us in the Sustainer Spirit.

In his final words to his disciples at the Last Supper, Jesus promises to send the “Spirit of truth [to] guide you to all truth.”  The Son has revealed the Father to the Church; the Spirit of truth and wisdom keeps that revelation alive in the Church.

 

 

 

First Reading Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

1Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? 2On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; 3beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out:4"To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live.

22The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago. 23Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 24When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. 25Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth-26when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world's first bits of soil. 27When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 28when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, 29when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 30then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, 31rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.

Psalm 8:1-9

1O LORD, our Sovereign,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

2Out of the mouths of babes and infants

you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,

to silence the enemy and the avenger.

3When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars that you have established;

4what are human beings that you are mindful of them,

mortals that you care for them?

5Yet you have made them a little lower than God,

and crowned them with glory and honor.

6You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;

you have put all things under their feet,

7all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

8the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9O LORD, our Sovereign,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Second Reading Romans 5:1-5

1Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

Gospel John 16:12-15

12 "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.