The HOLY TRINITY TRIDUUM
VOX DEI, VOX MUNDI: God's Voice is Earth's
VOX MUNDI, VOX TERRAE: the Earth's Voice is the Land's
VOX TERRAE, VOX POPULI: the Land's Voice is the People's
VOX POPULI, VOX DEI: the People's Voice is God's
In the beginning was the WORD … God said, “Let there be LIGHT”
WORD and LIGHT are expressive of all other, bonded in LOVE’s Purpose, in reciprocal Self-expression.
The Pascal Mysteries celebrate WORD/LIGHT/LOVE in the mutual purposes of self and other — what Eucharist is, what Cosmic Evolution is about.
Life proceeds by and in WORD/LIGHT/LOVE. Humankind becomes community, in purposes of self-expression, by intentional communication, informed consciousness and conscionable love. Creation is the ongoing WORD/WORK of Divine Communication, Consciousness and Conscience.
The heart of Triduum Reflection (Retreat) is the celebration of WORD/LIGHT/LOVE, from which we receive the grace-laden (indulgences) attention of Community bonded in Cosmic Awareness, the Instance of Divinity, the Intelligent Design of Cosmic Process. The Easter Triduum celebrates Word, Eucharist, and Trinity. Evolution and its “method” is a valuable Triduum reflection of Trinitarian Procession: cogitata perficiendo, cogitando sic perfecta (thoughtful working, perfected in thinking).
Words, communication, are the means of how we come to mutual understandings;
Consciousness (enlightenment) is how mutual awareness serves personal/ social complementarity; and conscience is love’s means of subsidiarity serving people and community in specific needs of time and place.
By analogy, in the growth of self-awareness and community, we grow into Godlikeness, into Trinitarian Community; FAITH from mutuality; HOPE from complementarity; and LOVE from subsidiarity.
The personal/ social Call — to each and everyone — is to become more Trinitarian in insight and intention — the way of peace, sustainability and self-fulfillment.
Resources:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15041c.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Triduum
http://www.secondenlightenment.org/possiblejourney.pdf
http://www.secondenlightenment.org/rejoinder.pdf
Self understanding comes
Self understanding comes together in the understanding of Cosmic Continuity, the oneness of Intelligence and Design, what is the "grace" and "sign" of Sacrament.
In terms of self-understanding and First Causes, we cannot separate God and Nature. Even as energy and matter are inseparable, as soul and body are inseparable, so God and Nature are inseparable — what "panentheism" is about. Nor are female and male separable — in every aspect of human characterization, in the charactrization of intelligence in faith and reason, each of us personally is female/ male characterized. Let "man" be not so arrogant as to tear apart what God has joined!
We are accountable to nature in the same way that we are accountable to each other, accountable to God. We are accountable to secularity in the same way that we are accountable to spirituality. As Vatican II advises, "all is of a piece".
Creation and evolution are one and the same — evolution is the "essential continuity" of Creation — we are personally and socially accountable to Evolution as we are to Nature. This is the divine/ human "Hypostasis", the TREMENDUM MYSTERIUM, before which we tremble in awe, in harmonic ecstasy. It's the way we are. To deny it is self-defeating arrogance, the beginning of self-damnation.
Do we have cause now to ponder the possibility of the end of the "cult" of the Papacy as it has been avowed in imperial culture? Is this part of what Vatican II and evolution are about? Is this becoming, or is this already the consensus of the "sensus communis"?
Sylvester~ Colkoch commented
Sylvester~ Colkoch commented on another posting of yours that it was the best sentence she thought you had pennned. This, I think, is the best post. If you are not dead on, you are so close, so pregnant with meaning (as Tommy Smothers would say)and aware of the incarnation that is creation it makes my heart sing.
The truth in what you write here, as I see it, the beauty and challenge it poses for each one of us bits and pieces of ensouled creation is why I raise my eyes and heart at the consecration, look at the ineffable act of being and becoming, look around, sense it all in my insignificannce and in my heart give it all back and resolve, at least for that moment, to acknowledge that every moment is,in some way a continuation of incarnation and consecration. Thank you.
Like you and Teilhard de
Like you and Teilhard de Chardin, at the moment of consecration I too sense being immersed in the "Mass of the Universe". Thank you.
What is the discussion
What is the discussion question here?
The discussion invited here
The discussion invited here is to explore what difference in content, nuance, etc, the exercise of Triduum (retreats, etc) might have when reflection moves beyond traditional Catholicism's closed understanding of "salvation" history to a new perspective of God at work (divine instance) in the creative dynamics of evolution.
To be a bit more specific, how might St. Ignatius of Loyola change the thrust of his Spiritual Exercises in light of quantum science (evolution), global social/ ecological circumstances, and in light of the Call of the Second Vatican Council for updating and new "analysis and synthesis"?
Sylvester, you ask how might
Sylvester, you ask how might St.Ignatius change the thrust of the spiritual exercises...? For a start, probably to reflect his son deChardin rather than silence him.
Yes. And if the insights of
Yes. And if the insights of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin were applied to inform worldview, theology and ecclesiology, to what different understandings might Church come?
How would (could) change of worldview change politics, global and civil?
How would (could) evolving consciousness change theology and Church structures?
Chicago Cardinal George
Chicago Cardinal George (NCR, 11/04/08, pg 5) states that “liberation theology has stood the test of time.” The work of liberation theology is the work of love, altruistic concern for others. It is the Christian Option that comes to the aid of the oppressed and deprived. The exercise of Love’s Option is singularly the manifest work of divinity.
The Peruvian Dominican Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez (called the “father” of liberation theology) recently observed, “Hope is a gift, but you don’t receive that gift if you are not creating resources for it. Reasons for hope don’t just drop down from the sky. They come from the below, from what people are doing or not doing” (ID).
Hope, the middle theological virtue, is the connective resonance joining faith and love. Human community is resourced in the resonant energy of divine harmony. Hope is the personal expectation of give-and-take, the component of consciousness that motivates communal harmony. Hope is the virtue that links the spiritual and the secular, prevision and provision, faith and reason.
The harmony of human community attenuates the resonant energy of Trinitarian Community. The communal resonance of Trinitarian Virtue anticipates communal needs and provides resources to meet communal needs. Communities thrive when communal needs are anticipated and met — which can only happen when nature’s ecozoic resources (webs of flora and fauna) are sustained.
“3. Divine/ Human Understandings (Hypostasis)
"Trimorphic Resonance is the WORD/ WORK of trust. Trust is the basis, the bond of divine/ human reciprocity. Trust inspires faith, hope and love. True trust is unconditional. In the reciprocity of trust, faith is affirmed, hope is certain, and love’s concern is for other. Trust is edified in the attenuated resonance of divine harmony. The communication process is about trust, as are the processes of consciousness and conscience.
“The virtues of faith, hope and love are about trust; and the purposes of mutuality, complementarity and subsidiarity are about trust. Mutuality identifies self in other; complementarity fulfills self in other; and subsidiarity self-relies in other. Together, self and other reveal the fullness of Cosmic Personality. The expression of self/ other finds fulfillment in the cultural spectrum of organic symbiosis.
“In fine, Trimorphic Resonance is about the reciprocity of self/ other, each of which is the cause (means) and outcome (end) of the other — the enlightenment of beatific vision. In divine/ human reciprocity, the bond of trust inheres in all relationships and coheres with communal self-reflection — what is Beatific Vision. Uncompromised trust is the beatific vision of Divine Presence — Resonance — what is Divine Participation. The taste of Heaven begins on Earth when trust rules in relationships.
“The reciprocity of Word-Light-Love fulfills the trust relations of Divine/ Human Hypostasis:
God is WORD, the Resonance of Communication — Faith.
God is LIGHT, the Resonance of Consciousness — Hope.
God is LOVE, the Resonance of Conscience — Self/ Other Altruism”
[From: http://www.secondenlightenment.org/trimorphicresonance.pdf]