On this most somber of days, Good Friday, Hans Urs Von Balthasar offers us this powerful insight into the Trinity. “To [the Holy Spirit], the most delicate, vulnerable, and precious one in God, we must open ourselves up, without defensiveness, without thinking that we know better, without hardening ourselves, so that we may undergo initiation by Him into the Mystery that God is love.
Let us not imagine that we already know this ourselves! ‘In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and send His Son to be the expiation for our sins’ (I Jn 4:10).
The spirit alone teaches us this reversal of perspective, but through Him we can really learn what, in His view, love is.” [Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Credo: Meditations on the Apostles' Creed, p. 72[
May God Be Praised.
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