THE TRINITARIAN COMMUNION - Archdiocese of Ernakulam ...

Son Jesus Christ (Jn 3:16-17). God’s call always expects from us a proper response, acommitment and a dynamic involvement in his plan. For us Christians, fellowshipwith his Son our Lord Jesus Christ is the goal of God’s call. We are called by theFather to participate in or to share in the spiritual blessings and salvation that areavailable in his Son. The communion with the Son implies with immediate effect oursonship of the Father. This sonship of the Father is not hereditary as in the juridicalline but it is the free choice and election of God the Father who adopted us. Paulunderstands Christian filiation in God through Jesus Christ in the same manner (Rom9:4). Our life of sonship is expressed concretely in our life of faith in Christ (Gal3:26). Our communion with the Son has both a present aspect and a future aspect. Inthe present life it begins and grows and reaches its final consummation in the futurei.e., in the Parousia. This communion with the Son leads us to have a communionwith one another as daughters and sons of the same God.2.5.3 Communion in God the Holy Spirit“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion(fellowship) of the Holy Spirit be with all of you” (2Cor 13:13). The call of God theFather to koinonia with the Son can be responded to only on the level on which theSpirit moves and prepares one for such a response. Moreover, the very fact of ourbecoming the children in the Son is to be attributed to the Spirit, as the entire Chapter8 of Romans proves. “Romans 8 is completely dedicated to the radiant description ofthe life in the Spirit, which eradicates from the Christian everything that is carnal,makes of humans loving children of God, heirs of God and co-heirs of Christ, andmakes them hope for the eternal glory and everything that brings them towards it andmakes them more than conquerors in the midst of tribulations.” 98It is in the Spirit that we become partakers of Christ and we become afellowship among ourselves. 99 Perichoresis in the Trinity corresponds to theexperience of the Christian community which the Spirit unites. Moltmann says, “Themore open mindedly people live with one another, for one another and in one anotherin the fellowship of the Spirit, the more they will become one with the Son and theFather, and one in the Son and the Father (Jn 17:21).” 100 Further, our baptism is thedecisive moment of this fellowship, which is effected by the working of the Holy