Daily Reading for June 8
The Fathers of the church saw an analogy of the image of God in three persons in the original nuclear family: Adam, Eve and Seth. In spite of all the problems and limitations of this analogy it allows some insights which may give us a better understanding of human relations. The human family as image of God shows us that God is the mystery of love—and a fruitful love—and that God’s Trinitarian being is not closed in on itself but is fulfilled by surrendering itself and giving itself freely out of the richness of its immanent being. Moreover, if the woman, man, and child are images of God on earth, then eternal paternity, maternity, and infancy are revealed to us in the Triune God. Femininity and infancy, then, have an assured place in the divine mystery.
From “Reflections on the Trinity” by Maria Clara Bingemer, in Through Her Eyes: Women’s Theology from Latin America, edited by Elsa Tamez (Orbis Books, 1989).