Holiness means both giving and receiving love. Holiness is both an unearned gift and its responsible acceptance. The response to this giving and receiving of love must again be love. He who refuses this offered love actually renounces holiness and desires to be freed from responsibility. It is in responding to this invocation, in our responsibility to Holiness that our personhood exists dynamically.
Responsibility is the relation , i.e., a triadic relation.
I am responsible for the other and I am responsible before the Third , who is the primordial or original Other and that at the same time means the First. It is at that instance that I found the justification for my own action and it is before that instance that I take upon myself the responsibility for others. But this instance does not impose responsibility upon myself as duty or subjugate me. In my will for responsibility , which is only active in communication with the other, lies the basis of my responsibility for the other. Responsibility is therefore the essence of the human existence and not just an attribute.