CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG-REFLECTIONS -THE MOST TRINITY
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Mo NguyenJun 16 at 5:51 PM
This I believe (The Creed) Hillsong Worship
THE MOST TRINITY / C – SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2019
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL
(John 16: 12-15)
A DIVINE COMMUNION OF LOVE
The Christian mystery of the Trinity arises out of a sense of God as an active communion of love. I say ‘active’ when perhaps it would have been more appropriate to say an ‘outgoing’ community of love.
The first disciples of Jesus came to understand that in their interaction with him they were being drawn into the unique personal relationship that he enjoyed with the God he addressed as ‘Abba, Father’ (Mark 14: 36; see Luke 10:21-22).
Jesus’ death did not put an end to this experience. A key aspect of the disciples’ experience of his resurrection was a sense of still being grasped within this relationship between Jesus and the Father. So powerful was the experience that they attributed it to the creative power of God known in the Old Testament as the ‘Spirit’ (Gen 1:1-2; Ezek 36: 26-37: 14). So personal was the experience that, eventually, they came to recognise it as involving a third divine person.
So, without injury to the basic monotheism which Christianity derived from its origins in the Jewish faith, the sense of Three Persons in the One God came into being – not as an arid theological puzzle but as a way of expressing a sense of being drawn into a divine communion of love.
In today’s Gospel Jesus assures his disciples that their sharing in the intimate relationship between himself and the Father will not cease with his physical absence. It will continue through the gift of the Spirit, empowering them to extend that experience of divine love to the world.
Brendan Byrne, SJ
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THIS I BELIEVE (THE CREED)