Sermon: Trinity Sunday

Detail from the Anglo-Catalan Psalter

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on Trinity Sunday, May 31, 2026.

      Sermon - Trinity Sunday 2026 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20.

The picture shown above is a detail from the Great Canterbury Psalter, ca. 1190, found in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Each miniature depicts a stage of the creation: God creating light, God creating the firmament in the midst of the waters, God separating the waters from the earth, God creating the sun and moon, God creating the birds and fishes, and God creating humankind.


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