THE TRINITARIAN COMMUNION - Archdiocese of Ernakulam ...

the unjust structures of the society and build a nation in which we all can live in loveand fellowship. It tries to investigate the ways and means of the Church’s newexistence in this multi-ritual and multi- cultural society. This study is divided intothree parts.In the first part we consider the concept of the Trinitarian communion as thesource of our communion in the Church. Communion or koinonia means thatChristians share something in common: our faith, hope and charity, and havecommunion with one another. The Trinitarian communion is the source of ourcommunion both in the Church and the world. It is Jesus who revealed the Trinitariancommunion, foreshadowed in the Old Testament. The Trinity of Persons lives inperfect and eternal communion as a community of love, equals and justice. Throughthe Trinitarian communion we are all drawn to have communion with the Father andthe Son in the Holy Spirit. Having been drawn into this communion we, as Christians,are challenged to live in communion with one another.In the second part, we deal with the biblical understanding of God as Trinityhow the kenotic love, equality; fraternity and justice challenge the present practice ofthe rite divisions in the Church in India. In this section we shall consider how theTrinitarian communion challenges with perfect equality, love, justice and fraternityour rite dominated Churches in India. Raimundo Panikkar says, “Trinity is not onlythe theoretical foundation stone of Christianity but also the practical, concrete andexistential basis of the Christian life.” 4 Therefore the Trinitarian communion which initself is the source of our life and existence here on earth remains also as the sourceand symbol of our communion in our society. Here we shall explore concrete waysand means in which we could experience and bring back the Trinitarian communioninto our daily life. The Church as a sacrament motivates us to establish communionamong dioceses, parishes and Christians themselves i.e., among women and men,clergy and laity, dalits and caste people, Catholics and other denominations andfinally with the persons of other religions.In the third part we discuss that the fundamental Christian experience of Godas communion. The Persons of the Trinity live in a perfect communion. The Godheadestablished a relationship with us by his free will and out of love. The perfect unionthat exists in the Triune God, their openness, despite the reality of distinction existing