This is probably my favourite Sunday of the year because priests have to preach a doctrinal homily on Trinity Sunday.
I knew one priest whose Trinity Sunday homily was always about St. Augustine, trying to write a tract about the Trinity, walking along the seashore. He came across a child carrying water into a hole he'd dug in the sand, with a bucket. (Well, that was his version.) Asking him what he was doing, the child said he was trying to fill put the sea into the hole. Augustine drew the obvious moral.
So that's a bit of a dodge. But generally priests make an effort to preach something solid on Trinity Sunday.
You might be interested that there existed into the 1962 missal a "First Sunday After Pentecost" mass, even though there was no such thing (it was actually used on weekdays without, or with only minor ranked, Saints' days. Tomorrow it could be used in the old rite and Wednesday it's definitely used, although maybe not in Ireland as I think St Kevin had been a day earlier then)
ReplyDeleteWait, you mean that it was used ALL YEAR on minor feasts? Why the First Sunday after Pentecost in particular?
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