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Trinitarian Communion as Model & Basis for Ecclesial Communtion

Trinitarian Communion as Model & Basis for Ecclesial Communtion. The Church Originates from the Trinity and is the Icon of the Trinity.

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Trinitarian Communion as Model & Basis for Ecclesial Communtion

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  1. Trinitarian Communion asModel & Basis for Ecclesial Communtion

  2. The Church Originates from the Trinity and is the Icon of the Trinity • According to the Lumen Gentium the Church comes from the Trinity, is fashioned after the image of the Trinity and journey towards a trinitarian fulfillment of history. • From chapter 2 to 4 we see the economic trinity at work in the history of salvation and originating the Church

  3. LG 2 - The Father called together all those who believe in Christ within the Church • which has been foreshadowed from the beginning of the world • and prepared in the history of the people of Israel and in the ancient covenant.

  4. LG 3 - The Son sent by the Father inaugurated the Kingdom of God. The Church, which is the kingdom of Christ already present in mystery, grows visibly through the power of God. This beginning and growth is symbolized in the blood and water flowing from the side of Jesus on the cross.

  5. LG 4- The Holy Spirit, on the day of Pentecost, was sent to sanctify the Church so that believers would have through Christ access to the Father. • The Spirit dwells in the Church, leads the Church into all truth and makes it one in fellowship and ministry, directing the Church, rejuvenating and renewing her.

  6. Thus, the Church is "a people made one by the unity of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.“ • The Church is the icon of the Trinity: she is structured in her communion according to the image and likeness of the Trinitarian communion. • The Church can be analogically likened to the divine communion, one in a diversity of Persons by a fertile interchange of relations.

  7. The church structured in accordance with the Trinity communion maintain its distance from both • uniformity which flattens out and deadens the originality and richness of the gifts of the Spirit and • all divisive discord, which fails to harmonize the tension between the various charisms and ministries in a creative mutual acceptance of persons and communities in the oneness of faith, hope and love.

  8. Trinity as Final Goal of the Church • Born of the Father, through the son and in the Spirit, ecclesial communion should return through the Son, in the Spirit, to the Father, until the day when all are subjected to the Son, who in turn will give over everything to the Father.

  9. The Trinity as Paradigm of the Church Trinitarian Communion basis for Ecclesial communion • The trinitarian communion is the model of ecclesial communion. • Ecclesial communion reflects trinitarian communion. "The solar mystery of perichoretic communion in the Trinity sheds light on the lunar mystery of the Church. • This is a derived mystery, derived from other more basic mysteries and in particular that of love and communion between the three divine persons. Just as there is trinitarian koinonia, so there is ecclesial koinonia.

  10. The main definition of the Church is this: the community of the faithful in communion with the Father, through the incarnate Son, in the Holy Spirit, and in communion with each other and with their leaders. • Episcopal collegiality finds its best theological basis in the communion of the Trinity. There are many bishops, but they form one episcopal body. • In the same way, there are many local churches, but all together make up the one church of God. All the local churches are united through the risen Christ, in the Spirit. Ecclesial communion expresses trinitarian communion. "May they be one, just as you and I are one."

  11. The text from John (17:20-21) demonstrates the perichoretic relationship between the Son and the Father. It is put forward as a model for the community of those who follow Christ. • The trinitarian vision produces a vision of the Church that is more communion than hiearchy, more service than power, more circular than pyramidal, more loving embrace than bending the knee before authority.

  12. The Trinity as Paradigm for the Basic Ecclesial Communities • . One of the ultimate goals of the BECs is the concrete realization of communion among the members within these communities and between the various communities of faith. • These communities aim to achieve unity of mind and heart among the members. • They seek to become a community of friends and disciples trying to live out the Gospel values of love, sharing and service.

  13. "May they be one, just as you and I are one." The text from John (17:20-21) demonstrates the perichoretic relationship between the Son and the Father. It is put forward as a model for the community of those who follow Christ. • The Trinitarian vision produces a vision of the Church that is more communion than hiearchy, more service than power, more circular than pyramidal, more loving embrace than bending the knee before authority.

  14. The Trinity as Paradigm of the Basic Ecclesial Communities • One of the ultimate goals of the BECs is the concrete realization of communion among the members within these communities and between the various communities of faith. These communities aim to achieve unity of mind and heart among the members. They seek to become a community of friends and disciples trying to live out the Gospel values of love, sharing and service.

  15. The idea of the triune God as a perichoretic communion of the three divine persons can be meaningful and relevant to those who actively involved in the building of BECs. It serves as a model or paradigm for the BECs. • The kind of BECs that is to be realized will be the incarnation of the values of communion, sharing, equality, self-giving love, and unity in diverstiy that is inherent in the Trinity. The communion in the BECs is to be patterned after the Trinitarian communion.

  16. The trinity provides a model of unity in diversity. The trinitarian model shows that unity within the BECs, among the BECs and in the whole Church can be achieved not in uniformity and subservience but in diversity and communion. • The trinity also provides a model of equality in dignity among the members of the BECs.

  17. When the Christian community truly lives in loving communion modeled on the Trinitarian communion, then it truly is the sacrament of the Trinity. • When the perichoretic communion is really reflected in the life of the community, the BECs then becomes truly the icon of the trinity. • The Trinity is therefore not just an external and distant model for the BECs. The trinitarian communion can be experienced in the Christian community. The more the community lives in communion, the more it participates in the mystery of the trinity.

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