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