Sunday 15th June, Trinity Sunday, Choirs’ Day

This Sunday at the Priory we combine two special days, Trinity Sunday and Choirs’ Day. In Trinity Sunday we recognise our One God as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. For many both within and outside the Church, the Trinity is a difficult and problematic belief, but at its heart there is a very simple reason for it: we worship God as three persons because that is how he chose to make himself known to us. Why would we expect the God who created all things, who exists beyond space and time, to be simple or easy to understand? And (as our readings remind us) if we believe what Scripture tells us about creation – that Father, Son and Spirit all shared in the work, and that we are created in God’s image – then there is something important here to discover about ourselves. God is a unified community of love and co-operation, and calls us to be the same, to be bound together in mutual care and to work together in partnership. Choirs’ Day symbolises this for us beautifully – music is complex, dynamic, multi-faceted. It speaks powerfully to our emotions but also possesses a rigorous logic, rooted in mathematics and physics. The music we share today will show us something of God – different voices and instruments combined in one beautiful and disciplined purpose, all doing different things but combining in harmony. One music, many voices, all witnessing to the beauty and glory of God. This is (or ought to be) what it is to be Church.

Every blessing,

Roger.