Frances shows how to action the Great Commission

The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary for Sunday is used to celebrate The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity . The title of the celebration may lead us to anticipate great theological detail about the understanding of the nature of God in Christian creed. After our visit to Assisi yesterday where we were hosted by the Minister General of the Conventual Fransciscans in the geography of Saint Frances and Saint Claire we see how the order in which the directions of the Great Commission, from the Gospel of Matthew, is very important. The disciples are told to baptize them and then teach them. Baptism is Christian initiation. This Sacramental act of the senses awakens the recipient to being the child of God invited to address the Divine as Abba or Daddy in the freedom given through the resonace of our spirit with the Spirit of God. Our tour of the Sacred Convent where Frances is buried was preceded and followed by great hospitality from our hosts. Frances and Clair made decisions in the 13th Century to abandon wealth and teach love through action and prayer. The beauty of the landscape around Assisi and the actions of Franciscans today to see the beauty in community with each other and those they encounter is a setting in which the freedom to Love can be the fruit of Baptism. When we share our Love, time and treasure first we follow the plan of the the Great Commission and Abba and the Spirit will see that we have some theology to discuss too.