St. Catherine of Siena

Today in the Roman Church is the feastday of St. Catherine of Siena. Here is my favorite passage from her prayers.

O immeasurable love! O gentle love! Eternal fire!
You are that fire ever blazing,
O high eternal Trinity!
You are direct without any twisting,
genuine without any duplicity,
open without any pretense.
Turn the eye of your mercy on your creatures.
I know that mercy is your hallmark,
and no matter where I turn
I find nothing but your mercy.
This is why I run crying to your mercy
to have mercy on the world....

At Rome, Sexagesima Sunday, February 13, 1379.

(The Prayers of Catherine of Siena, ed. Suzanne Noffke, OP, Prayer 9, p. 69.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 04/29/03 08:46:20 AM
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