Lutheran Satire -- St. Patrick's Day

It's that time once again when we celebrate the Christian missionary to Ireland, St. Patrick.  We also get to welcome back our favorite Irish farmers, Conall and Donall.  Enjoy!

Lutheran Satire and the Holy Trinity

Once again, it is Holy Trinity Sunday.  Once again, our Irish friends Donall and Conall heed the words of St. Patrick regarding the Holy Trinity.  Enjoy.

St. Patrick's Day, Lutheran Satire style

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we revisit our Irish friends, Conall and Donall, who learn about the Holy Trinity for the first time from St. Patrick, missionary to the Irish.  Come on, Patrick!  Enjoy!

St. Patrick's Day with Lutheran Satire

In recognition of St. Patrick's Day, here are two segments from Lutheran Satire.  One tells the story of St. Patrick who, by the way, was not Irish!  He was a missionary to the Irish after having been enslaved there.  The second video is St. Patrick teaching the doctrine of the Trinity to Donall and Conall, two unschooled, unlearned Irishmen.  It is pure gold.  Enjoy!

Lutheran Satire: St. Patrick Musical

In honor of this day, here is the story of St. Patrick, set to music.  Done by Rev. Hans Fiene of Lutheran Satire.  Be prepared for one cringe-worthy part of the story.  Enjoy!

St. Patrick's Day and Lutheran Satire

In the past, I would post a Lutheran Satire piece about St. Patrick preaching to the Irish about the doctrine of the Trinity, "St. Patrick's Bad Analogies."  That will be posted for Trinity Sunday (some time in June).  For this year's St. Patrick's Day offering, I submit to you Lutheran Satire's "St. Patrick: The Musical."  At the very least, you can see why the Church has given him a day in which we thank God for his faithful confession.

Enjoy!

Lutheran Satire -- St. Patrick's Bad Analogies & Athanasian Creed

In honor of Trinity Sunday and the Athanasian Creed.
This never gets old.
From Lutheran Satire.

St. Patrick's Day and the Holy Trinity. Come on, Patrick!

Here is the annual St. Patrick's Day post, as St. Patrick attempts to teach the Trinity to some friendly Irish folks.  Come on, Patrick!

Enjoy.

Lutheran Satire: St. Patrick

Because it is St. Patrick's Day, we remember St. Patrick. At least, this is how I remember him:

This never gets old.

Lutheran Satire: St. Patrick. Come on, Patrick!

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, and an excellent instruction on the doctrine of the Trinity. 

This never gets old.

Enjoy!

The Holy Trinity and bad analogies

Holy Trinity Sunday is upon us this weekend.  You will not hear any sermon at Good Shepherd which attempts to explain the Trinity.  You should not hear a sermon anywhere that attempts to explain the Trinity, though I would not be surprised if some will try.  The Trinity is a mystery which cannot be explained or compared to anything on earth.  There is nothing on earth like the Triune nature of God.  Every analogy falls short.  Every analogy ends up introducing some kind of heresy.

The Holy Trinity is a mystery that will always remain a mystery to us on earth.  I suspect it may even remain a mystery when we are in heaven--that is, we will always marvel at it but never grasp it.  But this truine nature is how God reveals himself to us.  He tells us who he is.  He does not ask us to understand it.  He does not submit it for our approval.  God is one; God is three -- trinity in unity and unity in trinity.  Don't get it?  Don't feel bad.  No one does.  But it is precisely how God reveals himself to us.

We worship one God (Deuteronomy 6:4); we worship three persons within that one God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).  We believe in one God (Nicene Creed); we believe he is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (3 articles of Nicene Creed).

Whether you have already seen it or not, check out the Lutheran Satire video below.  St. Patrick, Donall, and Conall help to explain why analogies to grasp the Trinity just do not work.  Brilliant!  Enjoy!

Here's some Lutheran theology, Patrick

Here's a bit from my favorite Irish Lutherans, Donall and Conall from Lutheran Satire.  The first video is about St. Patrick converting Donall and Conall to the Christian faith by confessing the Trinity to them.

The following video is Donall and Conall having a conversation with Mormon missionaries about their particular faith.  Happy St. Patrick's Day, Patrick!