17 Jul 2013
Thoughts
from St. Catherine of Siena on Grace and Mercy Towards Perfection.
Posted by Supertradmum. “Oh! Supreme and Eternal Goodness of God, who am
I, miserable one, that You, Supreme and Eternal Father, have ...
11 Mar 2014
Another
reference to The Dialogues and other writings of St. Catherine of
Siena. In some translations of her treatises and Dialogue,. the sins
referred by Christ regarding His priests. point to the fact that if
these men said the ...
22 Jul 2013
Please,
especially new readers, check out St. Catherine of Siena and all the
Doctors of the Church in that series on this blog. Follow the tags. A
brief section from Catherine's Dialogues seems appropriate today.
08 Feb 2013
Look
at St Therese's Little Way which has inspired countless people to
practise charity and humility in their daily lives. In the same way, we
can look at St Catherine of Siena and learn something about the practise
of holiness.
10 May 2014
Catherine
of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux and Hildegard of Bingen. I
am concentrating on their holiness and some of the writings. The reason
a person is declared a Doctor of the Church is sort of like an
honorary ...
03 May 2014
More,
More from St. Catherine of Siena and St.Therese, the Little Flower.
Posted by Supertradmum. You ought to despise and hate the ministers'
sins and try to dress them in the clothes of charity and holy prayer and
wash ...
03 May 2014
“In
them is fulfilled the saying of the sweet and amorous Word, My
only-begotten Son, in the gospel when He replied to Peter's demand,
'Master, we have left everything for your love's sake, and have followed
You, what will ...
04 Sep 2013
Soon,
God willing, I shall go back to another look on this blog to one of the
Doctors of the Church who I discovered in depth when I had cancer in
2009, St. Catherine of Siena. She is another one of those saints for our
times.
29 Apr 2013
The
Delphic Oracle and St. Catherine of Siena have something in common,
which is not unusual, being that God works through many means to bring
us all to perfection. Garrigou-Lagrange in the post yesterday, was .
22 Jul 2013
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25 May 2013
St.
Catherine of Alexandria, (4th Century). St. Catherine of Siena, (25
March 1347 in Siena – 29 April 1380). St. Catherine de Rici, (AD 1522 –
1589). Some other saints who experienced this are SS. Teresa of Avila,
Angela of ...
17 Oct 2013
I
have written in the past about St. Catherine of Siena's making a cell
in one's mind....Can you do this, not only for your own protection, but
for the building of the Church? "Build a cell inside your mind, from
which you can never ...
23 Jul 2013
I
think I realized that the perfection series will never end. Of course.
Today, I am looking again at St. Catherine of Siena. Christ tells her
that her Reason must be enlightened on this journey to perfection. As my
regular readers ...
21 Jun 2012
The
Delphic Oracle and St. Catherine of Siena have something in common,
which is not unusual, being that God works through many means to bring
us all to perfection. Garrigou-Lagrange in the post yesterday, was ...
16 Dec 2013
St.
Catherine of Siena once said “if you are what you should be, you would
set the whole world on fire.” If we would only let God accomplish what
he desires to do through us. Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta once was
asked by a ...
06 Feb 2014
The
entrance into the illuminative way, which is the second conversion
described by St. Catherine of Siena, Blessed Henry Suso, Tauler, and
Father Lallemant, is called by St. John of the Cross the passive
purification of the ...
22 Dec 2013
Most
of the really young saints achieved holiness quickly, and we can look
at the lives of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, St. Therese of Lisieux,
and St. Catherine of Siena as examples of meteor-like saints. (I am
omitting martyrs ...
23 Aug 2013.
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28 Sep 2013
St.
Catherine of Siena notes how the initial stage of the journey is
characterized by a very useful fear of hell, a “slavish fear,” as she
puts it, which later moves on to what she calls “mercenary love” and,
finally, on to “perfect love ...
06 Dec 2013
Teresa
of Avila, Bernard, and many others, realizing that they were busy in
the world as well. The contemplative prayer and meditation allowed them
to be effective in the world. St. Catherine of Siena was a great player
in the .
10 Aug 2013
But,
I am following the advice of St. Catherine of Siena, which I have put
on this blog before. I am building the little cell in my mind from which
I shall never flee. Here is a posting with many, not all, of the
articles on St. Catherine ...
01 Feb 2013
Christ
words in the Dialogues of St. Catherine of Siena on good and bad
priests: “You should love them therefore by reason of the virtue and
dignity of the Sacrament, and by reason of that very virtue and dignity
you should ...
14 Nov 2013
I
shall save the best one until last, the Universal Doctor of the Church,
Thomas Aquinas, and as we already looked at St. Catherine of Siena, a
Third Order Dominican, I can concentrate on St. Albert the Great today.
Again, I am ...
12 Feb 2014
St.
Catherine of Siena shows in this passage that the imperfect soul which
loves the Lord with a love that is still mercenary, ought to follow
Peter's example after his denial of Christ. Not infrequently at this
time Providence ...
21 May 2013
This
is a gift which has been given to many saints, such as St. Bernard of
Clarirvaux and most of the Doctors of the Church. Clearly, St. Catherine
of Siena had this gift, to give one example in addition to the one
above. Second ...
23 Feb 2012
It
is crucial for the entire world that the Papacy remains independent of
any other country or nation. St. Thomas Becket knew this. St. Catherine
of Siena knew this, which is why she begged Pope Gregory XI to leave
Avignon, ...
30 May 2013
St.
Catherine of Siena pointed out in her Dialogue that the contemplation
of our indigence and wretchedness and that of the infinite majesty and
goodness of God are like the lowest and highest points of a circle that
could ...
07 Jun 2014
We
shall see farther on that, as St. Catherine of Siena says in her
Dialogue (chaps. 60, 63), the second conversion of the apostles took
place more properly at the end of the Passion when Peter wept over his
denial, and that ...
18 Jul 2012
St.
Catherine of Siena's Mystical Marriage ... We can also understand the
deep desire of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus: "In the heart of the
Church, my mother, I will be love".These testimonies are representative
of the full ...
24 May 2013
St.
Catherine of Siena, too, taught the same doctrine: that the knowledge
of God and that of our indigence are like the highest and the lowest
points of a circle which could grow forever.(25) This infused knowledge
of our ...
08 Aug 2013
I
shall save the best one until last, the Universal Doctor of the Church,
Thomas Aquinas, and as we already looked at St. Catherine of Siena, a
Third Order Dominican, I can concentrate on St. Albert the Great today.
Again, I am ...
18 Dec 2013
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