Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship. Then he said, "If I find favor with you,
O Lord, do come along in our company. This
is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and
receive us as your own." Exodus 34:8-9
Mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one
another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. 2 Corinthians
13:1
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so
that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17
Piety
Our piety is expressed by
our joining the mission of Christ. All
the ways we offer the sufferings and disappointments of our life in his name
bring to realization in our lives the love of the Father in sending his Son to
die for us. All the ways we die to
ourselves bring to life through the Sacramental life of the Church the dying of
Christ for each and every one of us. We
accept the love of God in our willingness to give our lives for each other. The “No greater Love” of John 15:13 is the
giving of our lives for each other. We
join ourselves to Paul’s saying, “It gives me great joy to fill up what is
wanting to the sufferings of Christ’s body, the Church.”
Study
Our study keeps us in
touch with Christ’s oneness with all the little people of our world that suffer
the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortune of those who are victims of
tyranny and injustice. Matthew 25:40
tell us that what we do for the little ones of our world, we do for Christ. We also share our needs of others so that
Christ may come to us in our need and allow us to be Christ for those who
minister to our needs.
Action
We know the life of the
Trinity because the Father sent his Son to die for us. We live the life of Christ when we offer our
time, energy and sufferings for those needy around us. We give voice to the Spirit who cries out to
the Father Abba, Abba in our name. The life of the Trinity is given to us in our
baptism when we are given God’s life through our baptism. We could not know the Trinity if God had not
revealed himself to us through the sending of his Son. The depth of our relationship to Christ allows
us to share the divine life through the Spirit. How we live out the love of Christ gives the
Spirit expression. Our love for each
other makes us God’s children and children of God. Our work is to live the love of Christ for
each other. Thus, the Spirit brings a
human expression of God’s life. Wherever
there is love, God is there. We are the family of God in our Trinitarian
life. All the ‘threenesses’ of life around us allow life itself to be an
expression of the mystery of God as Trinity. We live Trinity by community and we bring
God’s love to each other by the oneness life allows us with each other.
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