Three for the price of One!

Today is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Our musical selections for today’s Mass were maddening. The only Trinitarian song was our closing hymn.

In two cases, Broadway Bob chose sappy contemporary songs that directly followed Trinitarian hymns in the Missalette. It’s like he was one off the whole day.

And one song he chose was clearly a funeral dirge. The man drives me nuts!

Don’t get me wrong – he’s amazingly talented, but as I’ve posted before, his choice of musical selections seems designed to wheel me around the bend.

Today’s reading from the Book of Proverbs, on the other hand, was downright amazing. Beautiful and poetic, it is truly inspiring, in exactly the same measure as today’s music wasn’t.

Proverbs 8:22-31

Thus says the wisdom of God:
“The LORD possessed me, the beginning of his ways,
the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;
from of old I was poured forth,
at the first, before the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no fountains or springs of water;
before the mountains were settled into place,
before the hills, I was brought forth;
while as yet the earth and fields were not made,
nor the first clods of the world.

“When the Lord established the heavens I was there,
when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep;
when he made firm the skies above,
when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth;
when he set for the sea its limit,
so that the waters should not transgress his command;
then was I beside him as his craftsman,
and I was his delight day by day,
playing before him all the while,
playing on the surface of his earth;
and I found delight in the human race.”

I mean… wow. This passage explains the “pre-existing creation” concept so eloquently, and it was read so well, that you could feel the sharp intake of breath throughout the congregation when the lector announced “the Word of the Lord”.

It was glorious.