Trinity Sunday Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

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Trinity SundaySolemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
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• The Shield of the Trinity

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Introduction

• First Sunday after Pentecost in the Western
  Christian liturgical Calendar
• Christian Doctrine of the Trinity
• The Father, The Son
• and The Holy Spirit

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Roman catholic practices

• Prior to reforms of Second Vatican Council
• Marks the end of a three-week period when
  church weddings were forbidden
• Began on Rogation Sunday, the fifth Sunday after
  Easter.

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Roman catholic practices

• Double of the Second Class by Pope John XXII
• Double of the First Class by Pope St Pius X on 24
  July 1911.

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Roman catholic practices

• In the traditional Divine Office, Athanasian
  Creed (Quicunque vult) is said on this day at
  Prime.
• Before 1960 reforms,
• it was said on all Sundays
• after Epiphany and
• Pentecost

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Athanasian creed

• Christian statement of belief, focusing on
  Trinitarian doctrine and Christology
• Latin name taken from the opening words
  "Whosoever wishes."
• First creed in which the equality of the three
  persons of the Trinity is explicitly stated

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HIstory

• Early Church No special Office or day was
  assigned for the Holy Trinity
• During the Arian heresy, the Fathers prepared an
  Office with canticles, responses, a Preface, and
  hymns

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history

• The Micrologies (P.L., CLI, 1020), written during
  the pontificate of Gregory VII call the Sunday
  after Pentecost a Dominica vacans, with no
  special Office
• Alexander II (1061-1073), refused a petition for
  a special feast on the plea, as Roman Church
  daily honoured the Holy Trinity by the Gloria
  Patri

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history

• John XXII (1316-1334) ordered the feast for the
  entire Church on the first Sunday after Pentecost
• After the first great Pentecost that the doctrine
  of the Trinity was proclaimed to the world, the
  feast becomingly follows that of Pentecost

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Bibliography

• Trinity Sunday
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_sunday,
  http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/15058a.htm
• Liturgy of the Hours http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
  Liturgy_of_the_Hours
• Athanasian Creed http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atha
  nasian_Creed, http//www.catholic.org/encyclopedia
  /view.php?id1198
• History
• http//www.catholicity.com/encyclopedia/t/trinity
  _sunday.html

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BIbliography

• Fig 1
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileShield-Trini
  ty-Scutum-Fidei-basic.png
• Fig 2
• http//www.therealpresence.org/essentials/creed/
  acc02.htm
• Fig 3 http//www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Avi
  gnon_Papacy
• Fig 4 http//www.hscdsb.on.ca/schools/school.aspx
  ?l,1,2,12,166,167,1214
• Fig 5
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileAthanasius_
  I.jpg
• Fig 6
• http//www.cab.u-szeged.hu/wm/paint/auth/grec
  o/

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Additional Readings

• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Newadvent.org
• The Holy Trinity In Scripture, History, Theology
  And Worship (Paperback) by Robert Letham