Current Trends Living a Trinitarian Faith Mary Ann Fatula, O.P., holds a doctorate in systematic theology from the Catholic University of America and chairs the Religious Studies Department of Ohio Dominican College. YOUR face, Lord, I seek. In the psalmist's cry we can recognize our own hidden thirst for meaning, for wholeness, for love. But the Jesus whom we adore as Lord does not offer simply himself as the answer to our human existence.
Babies spontaneously reach out to clutch at anything.
But anything is not enough. Our aimless grasp for anything is in reality a grasp for someone. At moments like these we glimpse what it means to be a human person. To be person is to be I , not It , and we become I only through relation to a You. Yet the only kind of love that satisfies us ultimately is a matter not of need but of gift.