{"id":1030,"date":"2017-12-16T16:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2021-07-26T22:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:10:47","slug":"trinitarian-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Trinitarian Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/2016\/06\/why-the-trinity-debate-matters-for-the-pulpit-and-the-pew\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/files\/2016\/06\/Trinity.png\" alt=\"Trinity symbol\" width=\"635\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trinity Symbol &#8211; links to Patheos on Trinity debate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Caslon, Palatino, serif; font-size: small; color: #ffcc99;\">I compiled the prayer during my morning devotions as I felt the need to focus my mind on the Trinity and the interaction within it. It is closer to poetry than prose, this is deliberate it wants to have a sense of dance behind it. It references various Bible references, theological ideas and other Christian texts. You cannot read straight off my theology from these, they are pebbles that grind against each other in by mind creating different patterns and shapes and I frequently adapt them when using. I am taking out a license not because I think my name is important, if I could assure it would stay anonymous then I would be happy with that, but because it should not have anyone else&#8217;s name attached. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Praise to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit<br \/>\nGlorious Trinity, one God, perfect in unity<br \/>\nPraise be to the Father<br \/>\nthe source, foundation and end of all creation<br \/>\nPraise be to the Son<br \/>\nthrough him, all things were made,<br \/>\nand without him, nothing in creation was formed<br \/>\nPraise be to the Spirit<br \/>\nwho broods over the waters of chaos<br \/>\nrejoices in creation and brings all things to their true form<br \/>\nLord God Creator of All<br \/>\nhave mercy on me<br \/>\none of your creatures<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nPraise to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit<br \/>\nGlorious Trinity, one God, perfect in unity<br \/>\nPraise be to the Father<br \/>\nwho in the fullness of time lifted the horn of salvation<br \/>\njoined the battle for our souls<br \/>\nand drank deeply from the cup of suffering for our deliverance<br \/>\nPraise be to the son<br \/>\nwho incarnate of the Virgin Mary<br \/>\nwas born, lived, taught among us until we crucified him<br \/>\nand then on the third day having arisen returned to us<br \/>\nPraise be to the Spirit<br \/>\nwho pours divine compassion into our hearts<br \/>\nkindling our faith through hope to obedient love<br \/>\nand leads us into all truth<br \/>\nLord God Saviour of All<br \/>\nhave mercy on me<br \/>\na child of yours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nPraise to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit<br \/>\nGlorious Trinity, one God, perfect in unity<br \/>\nPraise be to the Father<br \/>\nwho being truly righteous and<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">who knowing the deeds, hearts and minds of all<br \/>\njudges all with\u00a0 compassion, integrity and mercy<br \/>\nPraise be to the son<br \/>\nwho having descended into the loneliness of our suffering<br \/>\nascended to the father taking human flesh and frailty into the Godhead<br \/>\nand from thence shall come again to judge the living and the dead<br \/>\nPraise to the Spirit<br \/>\nwho shows the world is wrong about righteousness<br \/>\nand therefore about sin, judgement and mercy<br \/>\nand pleads from our hearts for us<br \/>\nLord God Judge of all<br \/>\nhave mercy on me<br \/>\na sinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: #ffcc99;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by\/4.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTrinity Meditation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">Jean M Russell<\/a> is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License<\/a>.<br \/>\nBased on a work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1030\" rel=\"dct:source\">http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1030<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I compiled the prayer during my morning devotions as I felt the need to focus my mind on the Trinity and the interaction within it. It is closer to poetry than prose, this is deliberate it wants to have a sense of dance behind it. It references various Bible references, theological ideas and other Christian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trinitarian Meditation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[570,328,530,330,558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy","category-piety","category-poetry","category-spirituality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}