{"id":137885,"date":"2025-06-18T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137885"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:43:01","slug":"eleanor-parker-the-medieval-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137885","title":{"rendered":"(Eleanor Parker) The Medieval Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/a-carol-of-trinity.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>O, o, o, o, o, o, o, o,<\/em><br><em>O deus sine termino!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. O Father without beginning,<br>O Son and Holy Ghost also,<br>O three and one without ending,<br>O deus sine termino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. O three persons in one unity<br>Being but one god and no mo,&nbsp;<em>[more]<\/em><br>One in substance, essence and might,<br>O deus sine termino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. O, which hast made both day and night,<br>Heaven and earth round like an O<br>By thy wisdom and endless might,<br>O deus sine termino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. O, which of nought all thing hast wrought,<br>O verbum in principio,<br>O, without whom is wrought right nought,<br>O deus sine termino;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. O prince of peace, O heavenly king,<br>O final ender of our woe,<br>O, whose kingdom hath no ending,<br>O deus sine termino;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. O maker of each creature,<br>O supplanter of our foe,<br>O son of Mary, virgin pure,<br>O deus sine termino;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. We beseech thee with all our might,<br>Ere we depart this world fro,&nbsp;<em>[from]<\/em><br>Of forgiveness of our delicte&nbsp;<em>[sins]<\/em><br>O deus sine termino;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Christ grant us grace, that we come may<br>To heaven&#8217;s bliss, when we hence go,<br>Who died for us on Good Friday<br>Et regnat sine termino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the points I like to emphasise on this blog is that (contrary to what many people mistakenly believe) medieval religious literature is often full of creativity, imagination and joy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trinity Sunday&#x271d;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gXxvUdfXfm\">pic.twitter.com\/gXxvUdfXfm<\/a><\/p>\u2014 The War on Beauty (@thewaronbeauty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thewaronbeauty\/status\/1934375241733845250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all. O, o, o, o, o, o, o, o,O deus sine termino! 1. O Father without beginning,O Son and Holy Ghost also,O three and one without ending,O deus sine termino. 2. O three persons in one unityBeing but<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137885\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,183,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-the-trinity-father-son-and-holy-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137889,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137885\/revisions\/137889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}