Sunday, May 22, 2016

Sometimes I preach: " The Divine Dance" Trinity Sunday (5/22/16)

Excerpt:
Meanwhile, while part of the early church were in this debate, trying to come to terms with this divine mystery, other parts were more concerned with the relationship of the Trinity and what they do, rather than trying to define who they are.

These Christians started thinking about how the Father, Son and Holy Spirit existed before time and creation and how they have been relationship with one another from the beginning.

One monk, John of Damascus, came up with an image to trying to define this relationship using a fancy Greek word: perichoreisis.  

It basically means dancing between. He thought about how God is love and always has been and how the three members of the Trinity have shared in that love since since before time began. That before the world began, there was God, there was communion, there was a divine dance. And they dwell together, circling one another, making space for another.

God at the very core is not solitude but rather community. One in Three, Three in One.

Dancing, dwelling together, making space for one another.

And miraculously, through the in-breaking of Christ into the world, we have been invited to participate in that dance, in that relationship, in that communion. It’s what Jesus says over and over in John that we will be one with him as he and the Father are one. We are invited into that mystery.



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