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One of my favorite things to do is to walk along the seashore and think about God. Watching the waves relentlessly crash against the shore and gently recede, gazing out over the immense expanse of water and imagining what lies under the deep—this is almost a prayer in itself.
Who is the God who created such vast and majestic beauty? As St. Augustine said, seeking to comprehend him is like trying to pour the ocean into a little hole in the sand with a shell. It is easy to see why Father Raniero Cantalamessa takes the ocean as a recurring image for the Trinity in his new book, “Contemplating the Trinity: The Path to the Abundant Christian Life.”
It would be natural to assume that a book of reflections on this subject is full of abstract, weighty doctrine, remote from ordinary experience. But not this book! Cantalamessa’s whole goal is to “move this mystery out of theology books and into our lives,” so that the Trinity becomes a living, vital reality in the daily experience of ordinary Christians.
His aim reflects a new trend in Catholic thinking…
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