The Trinity and the Sacraments of the Church
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Inhabitio Dei shares a heady and terse essay on the "Sacraments, Mission, and Divine Action." The importance of this piece is in the discussion of the Trinity‘s role in the Sacraments of the Church, and how they are all inter-linked.
An excerpt:
The sacramental practices of the church participate in the christic and
pneumatic dynamism of the immanent triune life which is the telos of
the world in Christ. The sacramental base-practices of the church,
rightly understood, are the form and splendor of the inter-trinitarian
love translated into the life of humanity through the Son. In baptism a
person is drawn into the circle of triune love, which embraces, heals,
and captivates the brokenness of sinful humanity. Through baptism the
Spirit unites the believer with Christ, drawing her into the communion
of the Trinity which exists on earth as the church. Likewise, through
the Eucharist, the members of the body of Christ gather together by the
Spirit in the peace that has been wrought by word of the cross which
makes all things one. In the Eucharist the one loaf is consumed by the
one body thereby assuming the members together into a truly united,
truly catholic ekklesia.
The full essay is here.
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