March:April 2017 FCM Newsletter

Newsletter - March/April 2017 VOL. 51 NO. 2...page 3 ...Trinity cont'd.
“The foundational good news is that creation and humanity have been drawn into this flow! We are not
outsiders or spectators but inherently part of the divine dance."
“Some mystics who were on real journeys of prayer took this message to its consistent conclusion: creation is
thus ‘the fourth person of the Blessed Trinity.’ Once more, the divine dance isn’t a closed circle – we’re all
invited!”
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“Just like the Trinity, we are not a substance, but a relationship. Always in the process of being loved and
passing along love.”
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“God as Trinity makes competitive religious thinking largely a waste of time.”
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Rohr wrote about a teaching of a man known as Richard of St. Victor (d. 1173). “For God to be good, God
can be one. For God to be loving, God has to be two, because love is always a relationship, right? But for
God to ‘share excellent joy’ and ‘delight’ – and this is where Richard’s real breakthrough is – God has to be
three because supreme happiness is when two persons share their common delight in a third something –
together. All you need to do is witness a couple at the birth of their new baby, and you know this is supremely
true.”
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This inspired view is changing my life. It’s a process because I find myself resisting the eureka!, the Halleluia!
the union! in it. I’m working on it. I hope you find love and eureka and Halleluia and union in it.
Peace,
Dan Pellegrin
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