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29.05.2018

Christ Church Cathedral Celebrates Patronal Service on Trinity Sunday

Christ Church Cathedral Celebrates Patronal Service on Trinity Sunday
Canon David Gillespie and Dean Dermot Dunne following Christ Church Cathedral’s Patronal Service.

The Friends of Christ Church Cathedral joined the cathedral community and many visitors on Trinity Sunday (May 27) for the cathedral’s Patronal Service. The service was celebrated by the Dean, the Very Revd Dermot Dunne and the preacher was Canon David Gillespie, Vicar of St Ann’s, Dawson Street.

Following the service the Friends gathered in the cathedral’s Crypt for their annual lunch, coordinated by Lesley Rue, followed by their AGM.  

In his sermon, Canon David Gillespie, focused on the Trinity, a concept which was difficult to understand – God is one, yet he is three, he said. He suggested that we should never be afraid to rest in the mystery of God but added that we are not a culture that is at ease with mystery.

“We are surrounded by technology through which we can know almost everything,” he commented. “But we forget that in contemplating God we are out of our depth and we can only fumble in the dark,” he said adding that we could not have known him at all if he had not come to us through the person of Jesus Christ.

He said that God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit coexisted in love and grace and in community. We were invited to be part of that community, he explained pointing out that at the beginning of our lives we were baptised into the life of the Trinity.

“Our baptism commits us to live in community with each other but, more importantly, we live with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and we live with those who seek a new life and a new way to be. Such a community embraces all. It embraces the yeses and the noes. It is diverse and it is united. It is united in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” he concluded.

Some of the Friends of Christ Church Cathedral at the Friends' Lunch in the Crypt.
Some of the Friends of Christ Church Cathedral at the Friends' Lunch in the Crypt.

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