I’m sure you and most people know the story of St. Augustine and the child. Here it is again.

“But that is impossible, my dear child:” There is a very old and much-repeated story about St. Augustine, one of the intellectual giants of the Church. He was walking by the seashore one day, attempting to conceive of an intelligible explanation for the mystery of the Trinity. As he walked along, he saw a small boy on the beach, pouring seawater from a shell into a small hole in the sand. “What are you doing, my child?” asked Augustine. “I am trying to empty the sea into this hole,” the boy answered with an innocent smile. “But that is impossible, my dear child,” said Augustine. The boy stood up, looked straight into the eyes of Augustine and replied, “What you are trying to do – comprehend the immensity of God with your small head – is even more impossible.” Then he vanished. The child was an angel sent by God to teach Augustine a lesson. Later, Augustine wrote: “You see the Trinity if you see love.” According to him, the FATHER is THE LOVER, the SON is THE LOVED ONE and the HOLY SPIRIT is THE PERSONIFICATION OF THE VERY ACT OF LOVING. This means that we can understand something of the Mystery of the Holy Trinity more readily with the heart than with our feeble mind. Evagrius of Pontus, a Greek monk of the 4th century who came from what is now Turkey in Asia and later lived out his vocation in Egypt, said: “God cannot be grasped by the mind. If God could be grasped, God would not be God.” (http://frtonyshomilies.com/ )

One of the things I love about the Catholic Church is that it teaches us a lot about God through the numerous feast days, traditions, doctrines, etc., etc., Non-Catholics have never grasped that. For example, when we commemorate the Most Holy Trinity, it should remind us that we invoke the Him every time we make the Sign of the Cross. In all seven sacraments, the Holy Trinity is present. Augustine says the Trinity is Love. Love is present every time we make the Sign of the Cross, every time we celebrate a sacrament.

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Blessings
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Thou hast given me so much. Give me one more thing – A Grateful Heart. – George Herbert