Posted on 07/09/2023 9:26:25 AM PDT by MurphsLaw
Today's homily explains our role
in the Blessed Trinity
and how we are drawn into it, through the love
between Father and Son.
And as discussed THIS is where our rest from burden will come:
"Come to me, all you who
labor and are burdened,
and I will give you rest.
14 min. YouTube video link below:
Friends, in today’s Gospel,
Jesus speaks about his relationship to the Father.
Jesus, the Son, was sent by his Father in love.
Thus there is in God a play of lover and beloved;
but the lover and beloved are connected by the love they have in common.
Therefore the God disclosed in Jesus is a family or community of persons:
Father, Son, and Spirit.
The ground of being is a
communio of being and letting-
be. From all eternity, the Father forgets about himself in love and generates the Son;
and from all eternity, the Son forgets about himself
and looks to the Father;
and the mutual love of Father and Son is the Holy Spirit.
Active generation, passive generation; active spiration, passive spiration.
Breathing in and breathing out; being and letting-be.
God is like a set of lungs, or like a heart—
taking in and letting out, a rhythm, a cadence,
a back-and-forth of love.
This true God is one who does not insist on hoarding power
or defining himself over-and-against.
This true God is love,
is a communion, a sharing, a family.
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