HELLO!

I hope to see you soon, at 10 am, as we celebrate Trinity Sunday. I credit Fr. Richard Rohr for helping me navigate the appreciate the Trinity. He writes, “If reality is anything, it’s relational…. All this orbiting, exploding, expanding, and even contracting is Infinite Love at work. Everything you have ever seen with your eyes is the self-emptying of God into multitudinous physical and visible forms.” Furthermore, we humans are made in Love’s likeness, created in God’s image. Our primary identity derives from our relationship to God. “Trinity is and must be our stable, rooted identity” Rohr writes. “Trinity is the rock of salvation.”

Pictured on the cover of Rohr’s book, The Divine Dance is a rendering of an icon called The Hospitality of Abraham (also called The Trinity), by Andrei Rublev, a fifteenth-century Russian iconographer. The piece depicts three men, the three visitors of Abraham in Genesis 18, reclining at a table. Rohr explains these three men are also meant to represent the three Persons of the Trinity ‘The Father’ in the painting wears gold, representing perfection, fullness, and glory. ‘The Son’ wears blue, the colour of the human: “sea and sky mirroring one another—Christ taking on the world”. And green is donned by the ‘the Spirit,’ symbolizing “divine aliveness that makes everything blossom and bloom.” Rohr points out, “They’re circling a shared table. If you look on the front of the table there is little rectangular painted there. Some art historians speculate this is the residue of glue where a mirror was attached to the icon. As you look at this icon, you saw in the mirror a fourth participant at the table, a fourth participant in the divine dance.” The idea of an attached mirror invites us to sit at the table of God and participate in the divine dance, capturing Jesus’s invitation to dance with the Trinity by loving one another. Trinity is no longer a stagnant doctrine, but a dynamic dance.

“After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you” (John 17:1). It's an eternal dance of the divine in which the Creator, Jesus and Spirit glorify one another as they manifest and display God's abundant, overflowing, self-giving, other-oriented love. Dance, dance, dance…

Peace, Kevin “Kim says I also dance like David Bryne” Little