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Dear Parishioners and Friends,
We believe in one God: Father, Son and Spirit. Ours is a Trinitarian religion.
The Trinity is the source of our faith as well as the goal of our lives. We long to live for all eternity the life of the Trinity.
The Triity is for us the model towards which we strive as a community: free individuals with total equality in complete unity.
In the 1986 document of U.S. Bishops, Economic Justice for All it states:
Christians look forward in hope to a true communion among all persons with each other and with God. The Spirit of Christ labors in history to build up the bonds of solidarity among all persons until that day on which their union is brought to perfection in the Kingdom of God. Indeed Christian theological reflection on the very reality of God as a trinitarian unity of persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—shows that being a person means being united to other persons in mutual love.
Our relationship to God, is not a formula, a dogma, a creedal statement, or a metaphysics that demands our assent. God is a flow of living relationships, a trinity, a family of life that we can enter, taste, breathe within, and flow through us.
As Ron Rolheiser succinctly puts: The biggest misunderstanding that we have that block us from properly knowing God are not those of formal dogma, but those of a culture of individualism that invite us to believe that we are self-sufficient, that we can have community and family on our own terms, and that we can have God without dealing with each other. But God is community—and only in opening our lives in gracious hospitality will we ever understand that.
Amen.
Peace and good,
+Fr. Jimmy