Even if we limit ourselves to only ever speaking of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit – there is still so much that we don’t know about God. So much that we may never know about God. For starters, how does this whole trinitarian thing work? One in three? Three in one?
In considering the gospel for today as well as the memory verses that our confirmands chose for this occasion, I found myself wondering two things: first, why do we give advice and second, why do we memorize things?
On his last night with his friends, Jesus washed their feet, he shared his last meal with them, he gave them a new commandment to love one another and then he answered question after question about the fact that he would shortly be leaving them. And then, he looked up to heaven and prayed, which…
After weeks of talking about the advent of Jesus. His birth. The swaddling clothes, the manger, all his visitors and the star in the sky – we’ve made that sudden transition to stories about Jesus, all grown up and getting to work.