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Pope Benedict XVI: God has all the essential characteristics of what we mean by a “person”, in particular conscious awareness, the ability to recognise, and the ability to love. In that sense he is someone who can speak and who can listen. That, I think, is what is essential about God…And the whole of God, so faith tells us, is the act of relating. That is what we mean when we say that he is Trinity, that he is threefold. Because he is in himself a complex of relationships, he can also make other beings who are grounded in relationships and who may relate to him, because he has related them to himself.17
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