Welcoming the Holy

Here we invite you to take time for yourself in personal prayer. The following spiritual reflection offers words and images which we hope will evoke for you an experience of God.

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By: Sister Joan Sobala

“Lord, our God, how wonderful Your name in all the earth.” Psalm 8.1

Opening Prayer

Yes. Your name is wonderful, Loving God. We call You Father. We call You Son. We call You the Holy Spirit. You are beyond our comprehension, O God, and yet we are daily welcome to hold You close. What a wondrous God You are, O Holy One! In You, we are blessed forever. Amen.  

Reflection

 Think of God in the Scriptures. One thing is clear by it’s absence, and that is the word “Trinity” as the name of God. Trinity, as a way of naming God took Councils and theologians about 1400 years to work out. Yet God was Trinity forever, for all the time creation existed. God has been: Father/Mother/Creator, Word/Son/Redeemer, and Sustaining Spirit at play in our world.  Today, we celebrate not the complexity that could be involved in thinking about God, but rather, the joy of having God love us and the whole universe  without condition. We embrace God today, in whose grace we walk. We watch for intimations of God happening in our lives and in our universe. 

Closing Prayer

“You are extravagant with your love. 
You drown us with devotion and understanding. 
You leave me breathless, thoughtless. 
Maser, Teacher, Friend, Lover, Parent, 
Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer…
I try to encompass all your names but they slip from my grasp. 
When I hold nothing, I hold You. 
When I hold You, I hold everything.”       

Macrina Wiederckehr, 2008