Trinity Sunday
“And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Summary
This morning we welcome Cara and Abbi as they come for baptism. Usually on a baptism Sunday we hear only the gospel reading but today’s first reading is too good and too important to miss: it is the story of genesis, the very beginning. Today we will hear Genesis 1:1-4, 26-28 the story of the creation of humanity and how community and diversity are embedded in the new life that God brings forth. Here both God and humanity are described as plural: we are made by community for community: each wonderfully different yet needing each other. Our gospel reading comes form the end of the gospel of Matthew 28:16-20. This ending turns out to be a whole new beginning in which Jesus sends out his disciples to all people everywhere.
READING
Matthew 28.16-20
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’
