Dear Friends,

This weekend we celebrate The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The Feast, as the name implies, gives voice to our praise of who God is in himself: It gives us an opportunity to reflect on God’s inner, triune, life.

There are many reasons why knowing God, as he is in himself, is important. The one that always comes to mind for me is the fact that we are made in the image and likeness of God. If we want to know who we are, then we must in some measure know who God is.

God, as he is in himself, is an eternal exchange of glorifying, self-forgetful, other-oriented love. At his core (and all the way through) God is a community of persons, a communion of persons.

Our very identity, then, is to be in community. Through and with and in Christ, we are caught up in this love exchange of the tri-personal God. In this exchange we are made to create community by embodying God’s love (yes, the self-forgetful, other-oriented kind) for everyone we encounter.

Let me add some force to that: This is what drives us to keep gathering as a church, even in the midst of a pandemic, even in a Walmart parking lot. Community, our existence as a worshipping community drawn together to bring God’s love to life in the world, is no added extra of the Christian life. It’s essential.

Christ’s Peace,

Father Daniel
δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ