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Day of Communion



May 31, 2018


" . . . The energy in the universe is not in the planets, or in the protons or neutrons, but in the relationship between them. Not in any precise definition of the three persons of the trinity as much as in the relationship between the Three!  This is where all the power for infinite renewal is at work: 

  The loving relationship between them.

  The infinite love between them.

  The dance itself . . . "

                                     Richard Rohr

Day of Communion


April 30, 2018


" . . . if the very nature of this God is a centrifugal force flowing outward that becomes a centripetal force drawing inward (similar to a rubber band), then we'd have every right to expect a family resemblance between ourselves and everything else . . .  If a loving Creator started this whole thing, then there has to be a 'DNA connections,' as it were, between the One who creates and what is created . . .                                                                                       - Richard Rohr

 


Day of Communion


 
"Trinity” (1425) by Andrei Rublev (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
 March 31, 2018

"Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the triune God - a 'foursome,' as it were - for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God."
- Miroslav Volf


Day of Communion
 
"Trinity” (1425) by Andrei Rublev (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)



February 28, 2018

"It's stunning when you think
about it - there was room at this table for a fourth. 
The Observer...Us!" 
- Richard Rohr


Day of Communion
 
"Trinity” (1425) by Andrei Rublev (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)


 
January 31, 2018

"Note the hand of the Spirit pointing toward the open and fourth place at the table! Is the Holy Spirit inviting, offering, and clearing space? 
For what?  For whom?" 
- Richard Rohr



Day of Communion
 
"Trinity” (1425) by Andrei Rublev (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
December 31, 2017

"In the icon of the Trinity, the Holy One is in the form of Three -- eating and drinking, in infinite hospitality and utter enjoyment between themselves.
If we take the depiction of God in
The Trinity seriously, we have to say, "In the beginning was the Relationship."
- Richard Rohr


Day of Communion

Why a Day of Communion?
 Since the early 1990s our community has chosen the last day of each month to reflect on our communion with each other, with the mystical Body of Christ, with all humanity, with our planet sister Mother Earth, and with the universe.
Why?
According to Thomas Berry and others "communion" is one of the three principles that govern the universe.  The other two are"differentiation" (diversity) and "interiority" (subjectivity).
To learn more about these principles, click HERE.
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