Unity and Trust

Unity is a relationship of mutual trust.

 

Yesterday, when I spoke about unity, I mentioned that unity is not based on sameness but using our very different gifts differently but with the same purpose of giving glory to God, who is love through and through, by loving one another.

 

This unity in love is built on relationships of trust. This is the inner life of the Trinity, self-giving love based on trust. This is why the Church refers to the family as the ‘domestic church’. A family is totally dependent on relationships of trust for the loving dependence on one another to flourish so each member of the family can be free to be the full expression of themselves as beloved children of God.

 

In these days of pandemic, the love that flows from trusted relationships is all the more important as we struggle with upset routines and isolation from friends. We cannot go to the church building to worship, so we watch online. But what are we watching when we watch the Mass?

 

We are watching the re-presentation of the loving trust between the Father and the Son who reveals to us the gift of the Holy Spirit who calls us to participate in this same love. 

 

We are watching a relationship of divine love that beckons us to participate in it.

 

We are watching a relationship of divine love that calls us into earthly fellowship of mutual love, trust and forgiveness.

 

In the midst of pandemic may we know the consolation of this love. When we are able to return to worship in person, may we come with hearts full of gratitude, as we bear witness to the love of God as revealed through Jesus Christ. Or, as the words of Jesus are written today, “So that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”

 

During this time of ongoing lockdown, please check in on one another. 

It’s an expression of unity. 

It’s an expression of love.

It’s an expression of relationship.

It’s an expression of the divine life that is moving in our community.

 

Unity is a relationship of mutual trust. Let us work on building that trust, even in the midst of a global pandemic.