(Ephesians 3:18-19) So may you be able to embrace, with all the saints, what is the width and length and height and depth of the charity of Christ, and even be able to know that which surpasses all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
As St. Ireneaus puts it, "Since therefore we have such proofs, it is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands
most copiously all things pertaining to the truth: so that every man, whosoever will, can draw from her
the water of life."
The water of life in the Catholic Church can be likened to a vast ocean. No individual can take it in. Man-made religion, though desiring to follow Jesus are like buckets from the ocean and claiming to be the ocean - "This is the true church," but in doing so, they actually diminish the divinity of Jesus Christ. Others stay in the seashore and "aaah, I have found the ocean."
The Catholic Church invites each true believer to be a part of the Ocean of Truth, to swim in its mystery. To be a co-worker in Truth (3John 1:8). To be in the One Body of Christ (Romans 12:5). It is beautiful that in the Catholic Church, though God wants to be known, it allows God to be God without taking away His mystery.
But why not settle for a diminished God so man can be closer to
being God? A humanist ideal wherein man can be lifted up to be the center of our existence. Mystery? Isn't that just superstition in an intellectual world. Or is it just an excuse for ignorance.
Naaah, I love mystery. When we embrace the mystery of God and His Creation, we open ourselves to greater possibilities. It is a continual unraveling of a gift within a gift. That is what love is - inexhaustible; And true faith is about love. That's the beauty of the Catholic Church - it is about love.
