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[
Henri Nouwen asked these questions:
1. “How am I to let myself be found by him?”
2. “How am I to let myself be known by God?”
3. And “How am I to let myself be loved by God?”
Take the time to listen to Dan Schutte’s “Hidden Darkness”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ePEEW4aT8w
“… God of silence we embrace your holy night during as we rest beneath your moon.”
May God Be Praised
Thank you Deacon Kelly for these thoughts and especially for the hymn. Have a Blessed Triduum and Happy Easter!
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