PLEASE NOTE: In most dioceses of the U.S., each year the Seventh Sunday of Easter is replaced by the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension. For the Ascension reflection, click HERE.
The Seventh Sunday of Easter [C]
Acts 7:55-60 + Rev 22:12-14,16-17,20 + Jn 17:20-26
June 2, 2019
In the year 398, Saint Augustine of Hippo, the greatest bishop and scholar of the first millennium of the Church, was walking one day along the shore of a sea. He was meditating in frustration on the mystery of the God’s nature in the Holy Trinity, trying hard to get a grasp on how it could be that there is one God in three persons. As he continued alongside the breaking waves, he came across a boy with a bucket and shovel, working away. The bishop asked the boy what he was doing, and the boy replied that he was digging a hole in the sand into which he was going to put the sea. Without wanting to embarrass the boy, Augustine tried simply to tell him that what he was trying was impossible. The boy responded, “What I’m doing is no less possible than trying to fit Almighty God into your mind.” Continue reading