Many of us know the following story:
St. Augustine, the great father of the church and theologian wanted to compose a book on the Trinity, but that did not make progress.
It is said that once he walked by the sea at that time and watched a little boy there. The child had dug a hole in the sand and ran with a shell in his hand again and again to the water, scooped his shell, ran back and poured the water into the hole. He repeated this again and again.
After some time, St Augustine asked him, "What are you doing?"
And the child replied, "I draw the sea into this hole!"
Augustine shook his head and said:
"You know, that's quite impossible. You can’t fill the big, wide sea in this hole!"
"But you think you can," replied the child, looking at the great scholar, "you think you can capture the great mystery of the Trinity with your intelligence?"
This incident gave Augustine the important realization:
God is so great and bigger than we can imagine ourselves.
There was another saint named Patrick.
During his missionary works in Ireland, he noticed that the faithful had the greatest difficulty in understanding the mystery of read more...-- Thomas Kalathil
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