Pope: God is not immense solitude but communion of love
At the Angelus, Benedict XVI described the family as an "analogy" of the Trinity. All that exists "goes back to a Being who communicates through a multiplicity and variety of elements, like an immense symphony", in which "all beings are arranged according to a harmonic dynamism that we can analogically call 'love'."
Vatican City (AsiaNews) God "is not infinite solitude but communion of light and love, life given and received in an eternal dialogue between Father and Son in the Holy Spirit", a love that finds an "analogy" in the family.
This Sunday, dedicated to the most Holy Trinity, Benedict XVI addressed 40,000 people who came to St Peter's Square to pray the Angelus. He stressed how "thanks to the Holy Spirit, who leads to understanding of the words of Jesus and guides one into all the truth (cfr Jn 14:26; 16:13), believers may know, so to speak, the intimacy of God himself, discovering that He is not infinite solitude but communion of light and love, life given and received in an eternal dialogue between Father and Son in the Holy Spirit Lover, Loved One, and Love, to echo St Augustine."
And although men cannot see him now, "the entire universe, for those who have faith, speaks of the One and Triune God. From the stellar systems to the microscopic particles, all that exists goes back to a Being who communicates through a multiplicity and variety of elements, like an immense symphony", in which "all beings are arranged according to a harmonic dynamism that we can analogically call 'love'. But it is only in the human being free and endowed with reason that this dynamism becomes spiritual; it becomes responsible love as a response to God and neighbour in a sincere giving of self. In this love, the human being finds his truth and happiness. Among the many analogies of the ineffable mystery of the One and Triune God that believers are capable of discerning, I wish to cite the family. This is called to be a community of love and life, in which diversities must come together to form a 'parable of communion'.
"A masterpiece of the most Holy Trinity, among all creatures," added the Pope, "is the Virgin Mary: in her humble and faith-filled heart, God prepared a worthy home to fulfill the mystery of salvation."
Before taking his leave of those present, Benedict XVI invited Romans and pilgrims to participate in the traditional procession of Corpus Domin on Thursday, which will unfold in the square of the Basilica of St John Lateran, where the Pope will celebrate Mass, and finish in the Square of St Mary Major, where he will give the Eucharistic Benediction.
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