The Trinitarian Flow

Yesterday’s message about the Trinity being a fountain fullness of love as St Bonaventure describes it truly blessed me. Father Richard Rohr gave a sermon about it in which he shared that Bonaventure was profoundly Trinitarian. In that His framework for reality was love itself—always and forever flowing, overflowing, and filling all things. He called Our Trinitarian God a “fountain fullness” of love. Reality is always in process and fully participatory; it is love itself in action, and not a mere Platonic world, an abstract idea, or a static, impersonal principle. God as Trinitarian Flow is the blueprint and pattern for all relationships and thus all of creation, which we now know from atoms to circulatory systems, ecosystems, and galaxies is exactly the case. He also described the Trinitarian love in his Daily Meditation. “God is unhindered dialogue, a positive and inclusive flow, an eternal waterwheel of self-emptying and outpouring love—that knows it can completely self-empty because it will always be filled back up. This is the very definition and description of divine love; all human love merely imitates, approximates, and celebrates this same pattern.”

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