LESSONS FROM THE HOLY TRINITY

 




WHAT DOES THE HOLY TRINITY HAVE TO SAY TO US? 

The Trinity is a communio personarum, a communion of persons. In God, the problem of unity and diversity is overcome in a way man will never achieve: one  Godhead, yet three Persons.


The Trinitarian relationship in Scripture reveals the nature of God to be both communal and social. Therefore, we who are made in the image of God also share this communal, social nature. 


We can ask ourselves the following question: what does it mean to be made in the image of God and to share in this Trinitarian nature of relationship and community? What would it mean for us today to reflect the free flowing love modeled in the Triune God and revealed in Scripture? 


The answer will be: It would mean finding ways to address the global crisis of poverty. It would mean seeking ways to end violence and work toward equality and justice. It would mean respecting the freedom and dignity of each person because they, too, are made in the image of God. In short, it would mean allowing our lives to be guided by the words of Jesus in the great commandment, To love God and to love your neighbor as yourself.


Humanae Vitae says: human love should be human, total, faithful and exclusive, and fertile. It is human, because it must be what man is: body and soul, a foot in the material world, a foot in the spiritual. And just as Jesus is begotten, not made, so should the human child come into the world as an expression of human (i.e., spiritual and bodily) union, not laboratory technique (IVF, surrogacy, artificial insemination). Human love must be total, a complete self-gift, like God Himself. It must be faithful and exclusive, that is, personally exclusive (rejecting polygamy and polyandry) and personally faithful (rejecting divorce as incompatible with indissolubility). And it must be fertile, i.e., open to giving life, just as God is always open to giving life.

© Rev Fr. Utazi Prince Marie Benignus Zereuwa

May 23 2024

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