Our Life in the Trinity
The Trinity seeks to share its bliss, its perfect joy with human beings. This, as revelation has shown us, was the first, the original intention in Creation. And certainly it was an admirable revelation, completely justifying the existence of Creation. By this I mean that if God had created beings with souls only to throw them back into nothingness after suffering them to live for a little while; if Creation really corresponded only to this early life in which we move, then it would certainly seem unworthy of a scheme inspired by love and wisdom. If this were the case, atheism would seem the most normal of postures, for Creation would be like a sort of enormous game in which all creatures would be pawns in God’s hands, lacking in any worthwhile destiny.
But revelation shows us that the Trinity breathed life into these beings that surround it and gave them radiance, the world of angels and the world of men, essentially in order to associate them with its own bliss, to lead them into its own infinite joy. When we realize this, the origins of Creation seem admirable. So does its end, since its only origin and only end is love, real love, a completely disinterested love—for God does not need us, it is we who have need of Him. There is an aspect of absolute gratuitousness in Creation. Its primary source lies exclusively in this love. Thus we exist only to the extent that we are loved. For us, in our innermost beings, existing is merely being the condition of an act of love within the Trinity, which communicates being to us only in order to associate us in its life.
Cardinal Jean Danielou, S.J.
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