Dear Saints,

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 being in community.

Through and with and in Christ, we are caught up in God’s interpersonal self-giving. In this exchange we are made fit 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 difficult times. Heck, even in easy times! Community, our existence as a worshipping people drawn together by Jesus to bring God’s love to life in the world, is no added extra of the Christian life. We aren’t who we were made to be without it!

In the Peace of the Three-Personal God,

Father Daniel

δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ