The love of the Trinity is phenomenal. Potentially so phenomenal that we can’t understand it. But when I think about the love of the Trinity – I understand it as three which become one because of a powerful and binding love. Minutely similar to us – our human bodies are essentially held tightly together by connective tissue galore. Without these binding factors, we would quickly fall apart in to our many individual parts. I think that’s sort of how the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are bound together as one God – bound by a love so strong, so selfless and so stable that it can take three and make them one, in the same way that small structures in our body take our individual parts and make them one.
So I think this makes the Eucharist AMAZING. Because when Jesus enters our body – we, too, are drawn in to that love. The love of the Trinity is necessarily imparted to us and poured forth from us – because Jesus, who we hold within us, cannot be isolated from the love of the Father and Holy Spirit. And so, as Father and Spirit pour forth love, we are enveloped in a pure and perfect love – and as Christ’s love contributes to the Three in One – we become capable of expressing a perfect, selfless, sacrificial love.
I think that’s right…
