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In the final part of Luke's description of Jesus' life, he puts it a bit more clearly even when Jesus tells them, "You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria even to the ends of the earth, you will be my witnesses." Again, I wonder how many of us really take that seriously and think of ourselves as witnesses to the good news of Jesus? If we do take it seriously, what is the good news that we're going to spread?
I think on this feast of the Most Holy Trinity, we have an opportunity to really, in some way, understand perhaps better than on another feast day or another Sunday of what is the good news. Now in the first lesson today, we heard Moses insisting to the people, "Be convinced that God is the only God of heaven and earth, and there is no other." Those first disciples were Jews. They really understood that and believed that -- there is no other God.
On heaven and earth there is no other, and yet, as we hear from St. Paul today, "All those who follow in the spirit of God are sons and daughters of God. Ours will be the inheritance of God, and we will share it with Christ. For if we now suffer with him, we will also share glory with him." In other words, we are his brothers and sisters. Then in the Gospel, we hear more explicitly that ties in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Something has happened.
But actually, it took 300 years for this to become clear within the Christian community. The doctrine of the Trinity wasn't proclaimed as the doctrine of the church until the Council of Nicaea in the year 325. All those years, the people were struggling to come to understand God somehow -- not that we understand ever this mystery, but to begin to understand that God was one God as Moses had declared so clearly, but God, one God in three persons.
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