Fr. Benigno P. Beltran, SVD
In A.D. 627, the monk Paulinus visited King Edwin in northern England to persuade him and his subjects to accept Christianity. The king consulted his advisers. One of them stood up and said, “Your majesty, in the winter when you sit at table with your lords and vassals, it happens of a sudden that a little bird flies into the hall, coming in at one door and flying out in another. It seems to me that the life of the human being is the same. We do not know what went before and we do not what follows. If the new doctrine can speak to us surely of these things, it is well for us to follow it.”