Godsplaining BONUS: How the Most Blessed Trinity Teaches Us to Love
Apr 18, 2026
A Day of Recollection in Virginia explores the Incarnation, the Most Blessed Trinity, and how knowledge and love spiral toward God. They examine Augustine’s analogies, divine simplicity, and how virtues shape union with God. Conversations touch on mysticism’s accessibility, curiosity and honesty as spiritual starters, and practical practices that foster interior life and communion.
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Convert Fumbles With Spiritual Bouquets
- Fr Bonaventure recounts convert missteps like genuflecting the wrong way and discovering spiritual bouquets.
- He made cards promising rosaries, forgot some, and learned the gap between initial fervor and steady practice.
Knowing And Loving Form A Hermeneutic Spiral
- Knowing and loving are both essential powers of the human person and must work together to lead us to God.
- Fr Gregory and Fr Bonaventure describe intellect shaping inquiry and the will giving it force, forming a hermeneutic spiral of growth.
Augustine's Word And Love Trinitarian Image
- Augustine's image: God knows himself, that knowledge proceeds as the Word (the Son), and the mutual love between them is the Holy Spirit.
- Fr Gregory summarizes De Trinitate: the Father's knowing begets the Son and their mutual esteem proceeds as the Spirit.
