We Do Not Know God the First Person Unless We Confess Him as Father

Originally posted on THE DIVINE HEART OF GOD THE FATHER:

If only we ourselves loved Him, our heavenly Father, in a truly filial way! (Seraphim of Sarov)

“The name Father has thus been revealed to men . . . [but] what is this Father’s own Name? . . . No man knows God unless he confess Him as Father, Father of the Only-Begotten Son, and confess also the Son a Son by no partition or extension or procession, but born of Him, as Son of Father, ineffably and incomprehensibly” (Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity). Jesus Christ said, “Father, 

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