Hole

The boy replied, “I will finish before you fit the Mystery of the Trinity into your tiny little brain.”

Saint Augustine Meditates on the Trinity when the Child Jesus Appears before him (Vergós Group)

There is a story told – a legend – about Saint Augustine who is famous for attempting to explain the Mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity…

The story goes like this…  One day, Saint Augustine was walking along the seaside and saw a young boy carrying a bucket of water.  The boy was running between the water and the sand and carrying water in the bucket to fill the hole that he had made in the sand with water.  He continued to run backwards and forward between the sea and the sand with water in the bucket.  Eventually, the Saint asked the boy what he was doing and the boy responded that he was attempting to pour the entire ocean into the hole in the sand.  Saint Augustine responded, “That is impossible, the whole ocean will not fit in the hole you have made.”  The boy replied, “I will finish before you fit the Mystery of the Trinity into your tiny little brain.”

And I have been thinking about the Mystery of the Holy Trinity…

Christ explained a little of it when He told the Disciples…  “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take what is Mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is Mine; therefore I said that He will take what is Mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:12-15).

Pope Saint John Paul II described the Holy Trinity as a Family…  a very happy family…  He further explained that as Christians we are invited to join that family upon baptism.  This is why we are baptised “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”  And it is not in the NAMES of the Father…  It is in the NAME of the Father…  And this is as much a part of the Mystery as anything else…

The soul is called to spend time with each of the Persons of the Most Blessed Trinity alone.  We are called to spend time with each of the Persons of the Most Blessed Trinity…

Sometimes I need to talk to my Heavenly Father, sometimes to my Brother, Christ, and at other times, the Spirit of Love, the Holy Spirit, is the Person of the Holy Trinity who I am called to speak to…  Saint Josemaria said, “Talk to the Three Persons, to God the Father, to God the Son, to God the Holy Spirit. And so as to reach the Blessed Trinity, go through Mary.”

And I have been thinking about that today, as I have been thinking about how long it would take to pour the ocean into a hole…

For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.