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A TRINITARIAN

VISION

Intimate “Communio” with the Trinity:The Goal-Source-Archetype of Liturgy and Life

”Communio”

The Key to Catholic Theology and

Spirituality

CATHOLICISM:CATHOLICISM:Communion of communio’s Communion of communio’s

TRINITY: Communio of Divine Persons

CREATION: Communio of Trinity with Creation it sustains

INCARNATION: Communio of Divine Word with Humanity

ECCLESIA: Communio of Christ with His Church

MARRIAGE: Icon of Christ’s Communio with His Ecclesia

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INCARNATION

THEOSIS: The DEIFICATION OF HUMANITY

““God became man so that God became man so that man could become God.” man could become God.”

St. Athanasius

On the Incarnation, 56

cf. CCC # 460, 1265, 1391, 1988

Life in the Trinity

“...He took all of humanity by means of His own light, and He

lifted it up and made it just what He is

Himself...”

St. Gregory of Nyssa(cited in Hahn-Aquilina, LIVING THE MYSTERIES #7)

DEIFICATION: A Doctrine of Assumption and Ascension

““That which is not assumedThat which is not assumed

is not healed.is not healed.”

St. Gregory of Naziansus

Letter 101; PG 37:181C

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SALVATION

SUPPLY-SIDE SOTERIOLOGYSUPPLY-SIDE SOTERIOLOGY

““Since He who saves already Since He who saves already existed, it was necessary existed, it was necessary that those who would be that those who would be saved should be created so saved should be created so that He who saves should not that He who saves should not exist in vain.”exist in vain.”

St. Irenaeus of Lyons

Against the Heresies, III, 22. 3

“...[D]eification is given to human nature by the incarnation of God,

which makes man divine in the same measure as that in

which God was made human. For He who became man free from all sin will deify

human nature...and will exalt it as much for His own sake as He has humbled Himself for

man's sake.”St. Maximus the Confessor

Cap. Theol. Dogm., cent. I, c.62; PG, XC, 1204

divinization - PASSION AND PUROSE OF THE INCARNATION

DIVINE MERCYThe Uncontainable Effulgence

Jesus told me, “The flames of mercy are burning me. I desire to pour them upon human souls. Oh, what pain they cause Me when they do not want to accept them (Diary, 1074)...Your great trust in Me forces me to continuously grant you graces” (G, 104)...It seems to me that Jesus could not be happy without me...His goodness compels Him to give Himself to the creature, and with a generosity that is beyond understanding (D, 244)...I also feel that God, although absolutely self-sufficient though He is, cannot be happy without me (D, 1120)

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LEITOURGIA

• Father: Source and Goal of Liturgy

• Son: Present in the earthly liturgy, making us partakers of the heavenly liturgy

• Holy Spirit: Recalls, makes present, and unites us to the Person of the Son in glorification of the Father in liturgy

Leitourgia: A Trinitarian ExchangeLeitourgia: A Trinitarian Exchange

• “In the liturgy of the Church, it is...his own Paschal Mystery that Christ signifies and makes present” (CCC 1084)

• “As often as the sacrifice of the Cross, by which ‘Christ our Pasch has been sacrificed’ is celebrated on the altar, the work of our redemption is carried out” (CCC 1364)

• “What was visible in our Savior has passed over into the Mysteries (Sacraments) of His Church” (Pope St. Leo the Great)

Leitourgia:

Mysteries of Divine Life

THE MYSTERY OF THE LITURGYTHE MYSTERY OF THE LITURGY

•Creation and building up of the Body of Christ (Corpus Mysticum/Totus Christus) by the Holy Spirit

•Communio with, in, by, through the Holy Trinity ‘that permeates and raises up humanity’

The Purpose of all Liturgy