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A few weeks ago, I was flipping the channels trying to find something to watch. And I stopped on a program that I don't normally watch, called America's Got Talent. I stopped because this young dancer had come on stage – a little 10-year-old boy in a green sparkly jacket. Before he performed, the judges were talking to him, and asking him questions, and that little boy just broke down in tears.
We are celebrating Father's Day today. And tomorrow, here in the United States are also celebrating another holiday, Juneteenth, which we heard about this morning in our Words of Integration and Guidance. For some of you. Juneteenth may seem like it's a newer holiday, but it has been celebrated by people in this country every single year since 1865. It was on June 19, of 1865, that all of the enslaved black Americans in this country were emancipated, set free.
Well, I'm sure that many of you have heard of places like Lourdes, in France, and Medjugorje in Bosnia, maybe some of you have been to Lourdes or Medjugorje. These are places where millions of people from around the world make spiritual pilgrimages, going there in hope of receiving a healing miracle.
Christian churches all around the world are celebrating Trinity Sunday, this three-in-one aspect of God. And I know it's confusing, because we say we believe there's only one God. So if we believe that, how can we say God is also three? Our faith, Christianity, is a monotheistic faith, which means we just believe in one God. In fact, all of the world's major faith traditions are monotheistic faiths, including Hinduism, which is thousands of years older than Christianity.
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