The Christian God is not a lonely God
Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a
communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed
communion with the Triune God – a ‘foursome,’ as it were – for the Christian
God is not a private deity. Communion
with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted
themselves in faith to the same God. Hence
one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with
God and with all others who stand in communion with God.
-- Miroslav Volf, After our Likeness: The Church as the Image of Trinity
If the Trinity is the very epitome of relational love, then (former Pope Benedict wrote): The Church’s charitable activity [is] a manifestation of Trinitarian love... 'If you see charity, you see the Trinity,’ wrote Saint Augustine.
--Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est
Each time the Spirit moves you to open your heart in love to another,
you are acknowledging the consummate form of relational love
that is the ever-elusive Trinity!
Seems so
simple…
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