JUNE 12TH

June 12th is Trinity Sunday and many homilies will focus on explaining a mystery. (Of course, a lot of us know that this "mystery" was discussed, debated, formulated, and eventually enforced around the 4th century by privileged, propertied, and powerful Christian men.)

Many of us grew up with these centuries-old doctrines that made our heads hurt. Many of us grew up with doctrines that did not make sense, that created walls instead of bridges, that separated peoples instead of bringing them together, that made our faiths, our beliefs, our skin color, our sexual orientation, our class, our way of life sinful, less human, and, outright wrong!

There are still so many people who are convinced that the hardships they face every single day are tests and trials from God. There are more who believe that God has a grand plan just waiting to be disclosed in the future, if not on earth then in the hereafter. There are those, quoting scripture no less, who sincerely proclaim that every elected official, including tyrants, dictators, and children of tyrants and dictators, are God's chosen.

Then there are those who ask, in the midst of so much senseless suffering, sickness, hunger, poverty, greed, death, and destruction, how God chooses whom God heals, rescues, and saves.

June 12th is Trinity Sunday and many homilies will focus on explaining a mystery. June 12th is also Independence Day in the Philippines. Maybe some homilies will focus on breaking free.

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*art, "Trinity," Kelly Latimore, 2016 (available at the vanderbilt divinity library digital archives)